Microsoft preparing to assault Linux

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It has been reported that Microsoft is preparing a major PR assault over Windows security failings in which it will criticize Linux for taking too long to fix bugs.

[blockquote]The strategy, called "Days of Risk," measures the number of days it takes programmers to release a public patch after a vulnerability is revealed. While high-profile holes in Linux and associated software tend to be swiftly dealt with, less prominent problems -- which could be just as potentially damaging -- can take weeks or even months to appear.
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So Microsoft analysts will have found another never used rarely installed package that had a bug go unfixed for a month or too. For the widely used applications fixes they are generally available overnight. The problem with any analysis comparing OSS and Windows is the scope of the software, with windows you have an operating system with a few apps. MS likes to define Linux as any piece of open source software that will run on linux ... which amounts to tens of thousands of applications. That sort of comparision is illogical and really tells us nothing. No one blames Microsoft when Adobe's product has a bug. Linux is truly only a kernel, most of the basic tools are from the GNU project and the graphical interfaces are from other projects. These tools don't just run on linux, they run on QNX, FreeBSD's etc. Bleh anyways, /end rant about ppl not understanding what linux is. I'd like MS to find a linux kernel security hole that wasn't fixed with 48 hours.