Your opinion on my opinion of course does not matter to me and my mind stays the same. :D I was speaking on the part of Microsoft's security, not third-party companies filling in and repairing the holes Windows has, which really can be avoided to the smart user, but not everyone wants to be or can be on the cutting edge of defending themselves from malware and viruses.

It's also not like the open source community will one day pack up and move out of Dodge, so I currently feel reletively safe just knowing people take pride in making OS X and other Unixes more secure and safer to use. ;)

No - the real money in security is in avoiding people voting with their dollars by moving to your competitor's system. That is what motivates Microsoft to improve the security of their OS.

And I don't think the open-source community is going to go away anytime soon - unless it is legislated out of existence by more DMCA-type provisions applied to security provisions built into computer hardware (viz: the now downplayed Palladium).