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Common Objections – Comparing Linux Distros with Windows 

Once again, my effort to explore common misperceptions (more recently exploring unpatched statistics) has brought out some of the common objections from those that don’t necessarily like the results.  Very rarely do I get comments that can find a substantive problem with the analysis – instead the arguments tend to be detailed variations of “your comparison […]

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Linus’s Law aka “Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow” 

How many of you have heard “many eyes make all bugs shallow”?  My guess is that many of you have and that it may have been in conjunction with an argument supporting why Linux and Open Source products have better security.  For example, Red Hat publishes a document at www.redhat.com/whitepapers/services/Open_Source_Security5.pdf, which they commissioned from TruSecure […]

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Washington Post – A Time to Patch III: Apple 

You’ve probably already read Brian Krebs article A Time to Patch III: Apple, but if you haven’t, I encourage you to read it and read the various responses he received – the responses run the gamut of Linux advocates (“You do understand that Mac OS X is not a version of Linux, and is not […]

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