Scott, that's the point exactly. Mark chose to not take advantage of much of what makes Mac OS X awesome so of course it wasn't as appealing. As far as Cory is concerned he is an anti-DRM fanatic (and I appreciate that, we need vocal people to help protect us).

I can say objectively that OS X provides a better experience than any Linux distro. Yes, the core point was data preservation but that could have been accomplished on the Mac. Mark more or less chose to switch over political issues.