yup, i absolutely agree with you, i prefer OpenBSD too and i don't care about the easy installation of windows and linux but i am using vista for daily use and for gaming

what i dislike OpenBSD is the hard customization, since a bunch feature are turn off by default.

anyway, i am not yet use Mac OS, but have a plan to installing it on my x86 machine

thanks to everyone for making comment.

And I think this is a crucial point not to be overlooked. In an open source operating system, security breaches are caused by mistakes which can be fixed. In a closed source OS, the breaches can be caused by mistakes or by malicious code within the OS. Now, we usually trust the providers of our OS's, but with WGA and all the drm in Vista, MS has made it clear that at least some of the spyware will be embeddedinto the OS. Therefore, I don't feel that its too extreme to say that vista cannot be secured and should *never* be used for sensitive information.

What? You think that's what's driving Vista? I mean, yeah, they put that in. But there's no way Microsoft's marketing interests are that limited. They are much bigger than movie distribution.

And, if you haven't been watching the news, Apple is now renting movies through iTunes and has contracts with all the major studies. Shares in Blockbuster and Netflix dropped a bunch the day that was announced.

I wouldn't say that DRM is the reason that vista was made, but it is a huge factor in the reason that vista was made the way it was. And ultimately, the reason for the DRM and spyware is far less important than the presence of the DRM and spyware.

And I'm not saying that Mac necessarily isn't doing the same thing, but at least they haven't got caught.