Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Aug 2005 22:00 UTC
Andy Martin of The Committee to Fight Microsoft on Tuesday announced his intentions to block Microsoft from releasing its Windows Vista operating system. Martin intends to ask Microsoft for an unconditional warranty that the operating system is free of bugs that could result in security vulnerabilities. He argues that no company in America gets away with selling a "defective" product the way Microsoft does.
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2005-07-10
First dude, get a name and don't be Anonymous "Coward". Secondly, if you say that Real Player is better than Windows Media Player then i would say yeah you bet, in fact Bhutan's Economy is much better than American Economy.
As for rest of your comments, you just want to believe that Linux is better to for which no one can do anything about. But one thing i would like to tell you, as soon as Firefox got popular, the number of vulnerabilities and bug count increased a lot. I don't think the day will ever come but if it ever come that Linux is popular, you will see how people exploit it. Right now exploiting Linux is no fun since:
1. A very less number of users will be affected to no fame.
2. Users on Linux side are more technical than average users on Windows so people keep their system patched, use firewalls etc. Windows has the largest user base of non-techie users hence chance of attack succeeding are more.
3. Linux has many flavors with many versions so having a common exploit for all of them is hard though i don't think having that many versions and flavors is being advantageous to Linux.