Amen. With a 233mhz laptop much of what is written today is sadly unusable. This would be acceptable if much of what is written was exponetially better than what was written several years ago, but that is not generally true.

Here's another point to ponder: is it fair to compare, as this article certainly does, unfunded open source software projects versus highly funded closed source projects?

This article fails completely in the admittance that high-level programs written by hungry software companies have just as many if not more security holes or oversights as open source projects. Especially when bugs are compared on a per-program basis, and not on an apple-vs-oranges level as in this article.

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