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Memo to Microsoft: Stay Secretive, Please
Jon Lasser, 2002-05-15

Unix and Linux security owes much to openness and public disclosure, but Microsoft is too far gone for sunshine to do any good.

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I admit. I am biased--I really, really despise MS. They do tend to stifle competition, newly termed "innovation".

That aside, no one is arguing that there is a Single Bug-free OS, but there are valid arguments about the frequency of patches for MS products. For easy comparison, look at IIS and Apache. We all know that Apache and IIS are roughly equivalent in terms of distribution, but I can't off the top of my head think of a time where a patch was urgent.

As stated before, when you click the "I Agree" button (on most any software regardless of platform) you sign away your rights to accountability and recourse. Enter the open source arguments where you could theoretically take the reigns into your own hands...

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