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to: Geo.
from: Tony Williams
date: 2002-11-28 10:30:50
subject: Re: Most Unsecure OS? Yep, It`s Linux

From: Tony Williams 

Geo. wrote:
> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> news:3de4eb4c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>
>>stupid that you believe Windows more secure than anything.  But I am
>>certainly going to call you on it when you post outright lies.
>
>
> the point is not that windows is any more secure than anything else, the
> point is that open source is no more secure than anything else.
[snip]

So the difference then becomes how long it takes to get the vulnerabilities
fixed and the fixes out to the users.

I wonder how open- and closed-source compare on that measure (I have my suspicions).

--
Tony

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