I think that the reason that the article focused on Microsoft so much is that to your average user the Apple Machintosh is a small OS that they have heard about and Linux is way off in techy land. So while it is all well and good saying that the open source community releases more patches, however for most users the only things that they will use are internet explorer, MS Works, MS Office, and of course MS Window XX. So until you can say that a significant minority of none techy users know about and use open source software, you cannot really include that sort of comparison.

This is just my 2c

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