Listen retardo, everyone knows that SCO is being backed by Microsoft in a final attempt to, once again, fragment Unix at a time when the Unix-like Operating System concept is stronger than ever. Everyone knows that at any one time there are a dozen or more unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer alone, that Microsoft is fully aware of. In some cases the vulns go unpatched for six months! And this is just IE... imagine the kind of undisclosed onslaught that the whole Microsoft suite of products must be experiencing. One can only imagine.

Linux has not put security as their #1 priority, just as Microsoft hasn't. Yet Microsoft makes billions upon billons of dollars of monopoly money. The real irony is that they don't see the irony in not spending some of that money to improve their security.

If you are a commercial user of Linux, you're likely paying for the expertise of Red Hat and SuSE's developer time and patching capabilities already. You're paying for them through support contracts, support incidents and the like. This is exactly how the open-source community is supposed to work. Here's the software, it's free. You want to do something different, fix a problem or patch a vulnerability? If it's critical to your business you gotta pay for it.

Oh, and the patch gets eventually released back into the wild, for everyone's benefit. Someone, somewhere is paying for all this. We're not all communists like you, Anonymous dude.

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