You're *funny.*

Let's look at an actual case in which an FS/OSS product has three times the install base of the MS equivalent. That is, Apache.

All but about three security problems are in IIS. The "swiss cheese" of webservers. Apache is dominant because it's better. More secure, more reliable, less expensive.

MS can't *give* IIS away.

But, hey, if paying through the nose for crappy software turns you on, who am I to argue? Please, continue to enrich the bank accounts of Gates and Ballmar as they laugh behind their hands at you.

And never mind all those Linux based servers that run for months and years on end without reboots, without crashes, without being cracked. Ignore that for every copy of IIS out there, three of Apache are in use because IIS is the script kiddie dream machine.

Cool. Buy MS. Buy loads of MS. Buy all you can carry.

But that giggling you hear when your system is crashed or has to be rebooted every fifteen minutes or puts out the welcome mat for viruses and worms...

That'll be me.

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