Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Sun 27th Jul 2003 19:04 UTC
Misinterpreted. I think that is about the best word around to describe the reactions to my previous article. Whether it has been misinterpreted due to people only reading what they want to read, due to an unclear choice of words on my behalf, or other factors, I am going to try it again. I will try to explain my position, again. Now, more stable, the code has been rewritten from scratch!
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Linux already has high market penetration in servers, so why haven't we seen a horde of viruses unleashed to attack servers running Apache?
Its probably because linux has more protection against such things. The system being naturally more secure probably has a bit to do. But the rest has to do with Linux having enough diversity that there will never be as many machines to be infected.
A single virus could wipe out all Windows installs, but a single virus wouldn't nescesarily effect Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Slack. In computing as with life, no genetic diversity is a bad thing.