Seurity is a concern but not as much as the report below claims. However, the security problems will be fixed in due course by open source community. Linux will remain my preferred platform, not windows. In any case, the article is too pro-Microsoft and too anti-Linux. Draw your own conclusions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Mohr" <suse_mailing_list@jimmo.com>
Hi All!
I was sent a link to this article with the above title and I was curious what others that about it:
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/19996.html
There is a lot of hand-waving, but it did say "16 out of the 29 advisories published (by CERT) during the first 10 months of 2002" were for "Linux Software". At first that is suprtising, even shocking, but my bet is that "Linux Software" actually means "open source", so it applies to more than just Linux (even Microsoft).
It also said that "only seven security problems were documented in Microsoft products." However, if you look at the CERT site there are references to many Windows-only products which are obviously not included in the MS stats, but it seems that open-source is always included in the Linux stats.
I would love to hear what others have to say about this whole article.
Regards,
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