OS War XXXVI
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Here's the point. Microsoft has hundreds / thousands of professional developers on staff and makes BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of dollars from Windows and claiming that it's secure. How much did you pay for Linux? Has the Linux community ever said that there weren't security issues with Linux? No. Have they ever tried to cover up a problem or blame it on someone else? Not that I'm aware of. Linux and Apache run a very substantial percentage of the web servers on the Internet, many more than IIS, but you never hear about massive numbers of Apache servers being brought down by a worm do you? I wonder why that is…
There were 47 issues listed in the Windows 2000 post-SP2 Security Roll-up patch. That's everything that has been found AFTER SP2 was released last May. I don't think Linux would even come close to that. Besides, Linux had a brand new kernel version (2.4) and it took some tweaking to get right. To say that Linux (per se) is less secure is a mistake. You have to consider the gravity of the flaws as well, and Windows fails miserably in that context.
Now, to aggregate the number of Linux vulnerabilities is also a moron move. How many of those flaws were doubled? Were you aware that Mandrake is based off of Red Hat? So anything that's in Red Hat will likely also be in Mandrake, so counting them twice is far from an accurate representation of the facts.
I still use Windows more than I use anything else, so don't think I'm a Linux biggot. Far from it. I'm just interested in accuracy, not emotion and closed-minded articles. Microsoft is the one making a mint off of consumers, so you'd better belive I'm going to hold an inferno of a torch under their feet when it comes to this stuff. If they want to be the market leader, then they need to be a leader, period. As I was taught in the Marine Corps… lead by example. (From Furo)
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One Comment
Anonymous
February 5th, 2002
at 5:20pm
You are dangerous to you. The thing I hate the most about the Microsoft and Linux security blather, et al, is that it diverts the attention from the real horror: you are going to do something insanely stupid to you and your friends long before something malicious happens from a stranger.
What do I love about Linux? Two words. “Permission denied.” That has saved me from my Homer Simpson Bozo Idiot self so many times I can't tell you.
It just irks me when ScreenSavers will say something like “never open an attachment from someone you don't know!” Oh, it's the people you DO know… the ones with your e-mail address in their address books — that you must guard against. You and your posse are dangerous to each other.