Really...

The premise that Linux is more secure is fundementally a flawed argument. What is the basis for this statement? Maybe the number of reported deficiencies/incidents?

What are the authors qualifications with regard to operating system design?

If product A has 100 users and 10 reported incidents and product B has 1000 users and 100 reported incidents; does this mean that product B is less secure than product A?

Additionally the more widely used a platform the more third party applications that will be developed for it. The more third party applications the greater possibility of vunerabilites.

Along the same lines, the more widely used the platform the more people with knowledge about the system. So if we say that 2% of a platforms user base are developing hacking tools or otherwise engaged in hacking activities:

If platform A has 100 users and platform B has 1000 users, then there would be 2 users hacking platform A and 20 users hacking platform B.

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