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Posted by: Another 'Linux Zealot' (Sunday 3 July 2005, 11:32 PM)

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Hey Michael Kingston!

You should check your facts before posting such crap to these forums. Linux runs on better than 3% of the desktop market (just about on par with mac or slightly above) and was on well over 25% of the new servers shipped last year. Check this link out Mr. CEO (http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5381/1/). The article is over a year old so it UNDERREPORTS Linux's market penetration. If you're really a CEO you should no doubt be interested in finding out why IDC projects that Linux's share of the server market will continue to grow.

Also, your bizare comment about microsoft software being more secure is just a reference to the 'security though obscurity' concept that is so often warned against by security professionals. You know, professionals - people who actually know what they're talking about and don't just spue non-sense they read in a newsweek article bought and payed for by MS. If you want proof just take a look at PGP Inc.'s policy with respect to their cryptography code here: (http://www.pgp.com/downloads/sourcecode/index.html). That's right, buddy, they make it freely and PUBLICLY available for peer review so that any flaws in the code can be found and fixed. So unless you think you know more about software and systems security than the cryptographers at PGP, the countless developers working on Linux and the IT security community in general than you should retract you comment about closed source being more secure than open source - thats just as inane as it is insane.

Do us all a favor and get your facts straight before you post anything else here.

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Story: How to talk to Microsoft about Linux

  1. I am sorry to have to be the one to break your bub... Michael Kingston
  2. Hey Michael Kingston! You should check your f... Another 'Linux Zealot'
  3. this is the first time ive posted here, i don... kre
  4. Well, sorry to burst your own bubble, but I'm afra... Mathias De Maré
  5. That isn't true. Windows isn't secure and it has t... Anonymous
  6. Oh, and something I forgot to mention: the fact th... Mathias De Maré
  7. i'm sorry Mike, but you need to learn and use Linu... Edward
  8. Linux is the kind of operating system that has suc... J Hill
  9. "You should very well know that not even 1 percent... paleo
  10. All these arguments about security and which OS is... Allister Jenks
  11. There is much ignorance about the issue of Linux a... Henry G
  12. Actually, its the arrogant attitude of superiority... Anonymous
  13. This article is interestingly biased towards Linux... Derek R.
  14. haha this is getting funny. Whoever posted this an... Raab
  15. This is a crazy article, so obviously biased that... John Allen
  16. I agree with John Allen. This article was poorly g... David Wright
  17. Sigh... It's a straightforward article really. Ask... Arthur B.
  18. To Anonymous USA, the network administrator. We ar... Jack Mac
  19. Don't forget to ask about the cost of CAL (client... Dan Kegel
  20. Not to mention, on the interoperability front Can... Anonymous
  21. I like the idea that one linux club came up with.... Jerry Watson
  22. Since we seem to be having a Linux Vs Windows deba... Ben Noble
  23. Oh, and to illustrate my point about the User Inte... Ben Noble
  24. I am going to introduce you all to a concept that... Anonymous
  25. After reading these messages, you see M$ shills sp... Kiko
  26. Wow Derek. Spokken like someone who chooses someth... Jeff Stone
  27. Just a response to Kiko's message.... "Newsflash:... Ben Noble
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  30. Ben Noble - As for example provided... It is not a... David Morgan
  31. Mike believes that the "reason Microsoft has more... Qaz Zaq
  32. I have used Windows 95, NT, 98, NT4, 98se, Me, 200... Qaz Zaq
  33. Hmm, I use both. I've been around personal compute... jimcooncat
  34. Dear: Ben Noble I would like to thank you, I find... Samuel Warren
  35. "My point is, that Windows is more user friendly,... Ben Noble
  36. I just read this web page: http://www.microsoft.co... Ian MacGregor
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  38. I'd like to tell microsoft a idea i had and was th... Anonymous
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