The problem with Closed Source software is that, well, it's closed source.  Yes, some companies (I won't mention Microsoft by name here) do closed-source stuff because they want $.  If a program/kernel (Linux/*bsd/ReactOS) is open-source, any theoretical security holes that *may* be exploited, theoretically, is seen by all with the source.  This means that people can fix it.  Sorry MS, but your security hole problem is only temporarily fixed by patches. 
That's all i've got to say now, except for the fact that this message is flame fodder.

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That is a wonderful theory. In practice of course Linux has more bugs and a longer time before they are fixed than Windows. And Linux is one of the better open source examples. PHP has more security holes in it than all Microsoft products combined. When I hear the old lines about it being so easy to find and fix bugs in open source it's like waving a sign that says the speaker doesn't know anything about software development. And so I just smile a bit, laugh to my self, and move on.

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Exactly !!

It is the future. nothing else. Lets wait and see

Well, I am not quoting exact technical stats nor am giving any market shares.. i was just pondering over the whole philosophy of Open Source and free software.

Software is just another engineering product, which is designed and built by hundreds and thousands of engineers, designers, architects etc. Its similar to any other engineering product like a huge ship, a ferrari car or a big building. The only difference being that "other engineering products" can be touched and felt and seen and are  physically unique. However software products can be  easily and cheaply replicated using either  storage devices like CDs or network transmission. Becoz of this possibilty of cheap replication, how can it be justified that these products be given away freely? and people bash companies that build proprietery software and sell it.

Assume that somebody found a way to replicate a ferrari car  very cheaply ,  will this force ferrari to start giving away its cars freely?? and can it be argued that ferrari should get money only from the "repairs" of the car and nothing for designing or building it?

 

 

 

 

Can someone point where some guys has any experience with Linux security fixes delay? In which company?

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PHP has more security holes in it than all Microsoft products combined.

I'm not a Linux or a Open source freak (neither am experienced as you are), but i love AMP (Because I use it - ofcourse).

Can you prove this quote of yours.

If you do, well, that would be a lot of help to me.

Thanks.

Check out the lists of vulnerabilities, incidents & fixes at CERT http://www.cert.org/nav/index_red.html It was a year or so ago when I noticed the large number of PHP vulnerabilities they had listed.

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http://www.cert.org/nav/index_red.html (your link)

please check it out today.

There are vulnerabilities reported for Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft and some OpenSource products (Mozilla).

There I don't see any open source project contributing to the "Majority" of vulnerabilities.

Anyway, I think Open source & Closed source products should co-exist.

But I like Microsoft Products because they are easy to configure. :)

And please visit http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html 

Here you can see that Apache is truly an Open Source success. (This was mentioned in another thread as well)

Oh,My idea is the open source shoud  be develop. Many years later, many work will be done. I think none have time to do the repeated work.So open source  will be develo
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I believe that it depends on certain aspects. In the case of Dotnetnuke, Community Server, and the others ASP.NET projects it's justified but in other case I believe that does not have future. I hate linux, it's complicated and linux graphicals looks like Windows 98 (KDE) but it's a good SO. I love close source  ;-)

My english sucks... Good luck everyone

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Good luck everyone... :-)