[plug] Linux security is a 'myth', claims Microsoft

[Shayne O'Neill]

Gah! The guy is actually bloody lying through his teeth.

A hand full of active contributers? I suspect hes confusing the guys who
do the commits/merges on the subsystems with the thousands who send in the
little 2-3 line fixes and mods and the like.

No single sign in system. er....... ldap? nis? pam modules?

He seems to claim that the value for money thing is now pretty much
settled. Utter horseradish. A few cash-for-comment studies does not
outweigh the stacks of genuine studies that show precisely the opposite.

Patches? Far out. Microsoft actually seems to believe they came up with
this idea of central updates (Speaking to a relative @ microsoft, the M
people are convinced its there idea). Regardless, Microsoft still fuck
this up regularly.

No development environment for linux? whaaat?

Heres the reality;
Objectively there is are more programmers working on linuxes kernel.
Rhetorically, and with some evidence, linux is cheaper TCO
There is not a single sign in system, there are a CHOICE of single sign on
systems, and anyway, single sign on systems are bad security.
Linux massively excells over microsoft in patching and the likes. Only
microsoft dispute this, and infact they admit in some quarters they suck
at it.
No development environmnent? Nick McGrath is a crackhead.

*shudder*



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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Michael Collard wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 19:49 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
> > Here's something for the Linux stalwarts
> >
> > "Linux security is a 'myth', claims Microsoft"
> >
> >
> > Read it at :
> >
> > http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160853
>
> That guy is the biggest dumb-ass I've seen this year. I mean, is he
> really that freaking stupid! This wrecks my brain! Just for that I will
> be discouraging the use of Windows, every opportunity I get, instead of
> every 2nd.
>
> Cheers
> Michael Collard
>
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