Thread: Risks of open source
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2009-11-19 , 02:28
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#20
Originally Posted by mmurfin87 View Post
If tomorrow everyone were to wake up and start using Linux instead of Windows, Linux would probably not be up to the task of defending itself against the deluge of hackers that would switch over from exploiting windows.
It already has enough of an install base that it's under fairly heavy, constant attack. The majority of Windows' problems stem from the user base, which (as I noted before) doesn't install security patches and basically suffers from PEBCAK. Nothing can solve PEBCAK without treating the user as the enemy.