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Re:This will be what kills linux

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 03, 2003 01:38 PM

Microsoft's security problems are intractable. Because the code is closed, you can never be sure that it is secure, period.

NSA have a backdoor? who knows. MS want to know which media files you're looking at? good luck trying to disable that "feature".

This is a fundamentally different challenge than building windowing systems that don't crash, and is going to be a real hurdle for MS.

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