Thread: Risks of open source
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2009-11-19 , 04:13
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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.

I quite frankly doubt the internet would survive this period in its current form.
Linux is already defending itself well, as the arguably dominant operating system behind web servers (and that is more or less true for the entire history of the Internet).

"Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some work to do."

–Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO (September 2008)
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...to_google.html
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Last edited by MountainX; 2009-11-19 at 04:13. Reason: typo