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sime:
Well now,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35659.html

Old MS$ must be feeling like their between a rock and a hard place. Cant do anything right, Linux on the attack from all angles, apache wiping out IIS, more viri and trojans than you can shake a shitty stick at...

Tough shit Bill ... What goes round comes round!

The sharks are circling ... It's just a matter of time!

Later

Sime

WMD:
Security through obscurity never works.  Yes, they can look for exploits in Open Source, but at the same time, anyone who wants to fix them can - and tell the devs about it.

Mistshadow:

quote:Originally posted by WMD:
Security through obscurity never works.
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Exactly. Come on, anybody with four active brain cells would know you can't keep the code of the most popular OS a secret forever. Get real.

 
quote:Yes, they can look for exploits in Open Source, but at the same time, anyone who wants to fix them can - and tell the devs about it.
--- End quote ---


What I love about about an open source OS is not only that, but the fact that they can't lie like crazy and say there's nothing wrong with it after the 20th security hole in it has been found.

Come to think of it, if anyone made an open source OS with even half the number of security problems as Windows they'd be the laughingstock of the whole open source community.

Commander:

quote:Originally posted by Mistshadow:
Come to think of it, if anyone made an open source OS with even half the number of security problems as Windows they'd be the laughingstock of the whole open source community.
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it seems like that harshness is what gives us the edege.  in OpenSource, no one just accepts a crappy and faulty code.

Fett101:

quote:Originally posted by Commander - useSuse:
it seems like that harshness is what gives us the edege.  in OpenSource, no one just accepts a crappy and faulty code.
--- End quote ---


Too bad the seem to accept horrible interfaces.

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