You totally missed the point - look at the subject line. Are you really telling me that because more security hole alerts come out for Linux that means it is MORE secure? This is the exact rationale you guys have been using against Microsoft and now faced with numbers suddenly more problems means more security.

Microsoft software is SUPPOSEDLY designed by teams of professionals using proven development lifecycle methodologies that ensure reliability, security, usability, etc. Sometimes these processes fail - no doubt. But I trust in them more that I trust in fly-by-night freeware written by who-knows-who over-caffineated Jolt cola consumers.

How can those of us in the security communtity who hold dear policies and processes in our security practices suddenly think that those processes do not apply to software development? If open source software means that the rest of the world will find the security holes then isn't THAT just doing what you accuse Microsoft of doing - making the end user a beta tester????

Think on that a while. I believe 90% of the posters on this list a simply repeating the Linux party line and have no idea of what it takes to develop real software. There is a double standard out there and I believe a large portion of this crowd is being highly hypocritical.

Be introspective here - there is middle ground - but the solution begins when the bigotry ends.....

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