[TriLUG] Can open source solutions be viable companies?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 17:31, Mike Mueller wrote:
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> Are these not facts: 1) MS succumbs to attacks often and Linux infrequently, 

Mike, while I whole heartedly agree with this, in the interest of 
full disclosure I must point out that one (of the many) reasons
MS systems succumb to attacks more often is that, having 90% of the
desktop market, attackers are more likely to target them.  If the
situation was reversed, I believe there would be more problems
with linux.  I *believe* it would be less than what currently
happens with microsoft, but I can't prove that.  So, let's not
let us (the linux camp) get a false sense of security about this.
We still have to make sure linux is secure (i.e. the recent push
to update apache and openssh).

Tanner
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