Re: Linux. It's all about LIES AND DENIAL.

From: Aragorn (stryder_at_telenet.invalid)
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:36:48 GMT

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 07:06, nate.pilk@gmail.com stood up and
spoke the following words to the masses...:

> Heres a number for you: 60,000. Guess what that number is? It's the
> number of viruses, worms, and trojans available (for no extra
> charge, I might add!) for the windoze platform.
>
> Here's another number: 6. Guess what that number is? The number of
> worms, viruses, and trojans available for the Linux platform.
>
> Want some more numbers? Okay, 400. That's the $sss it takes to buy
> WinXP pro and load it up with (not-so)useful, bug-ridden,
> copyright-laden, restrictive, closed-source and expensive win32
> software. That's 400 more dollars than it takes to download a VERY
> good linux OS (debian, gentoo, etc) and load it up with Free (as in
> speech, and usually as in beer too!), quality, easy to use, fast, and
> generally bug-free software.

I would like to add another couple of numbers. For starters, there's a
second 60'000, which stands for the number of known bugs in Windows
when Microsoft releases it to the public.

Then there is 20'000, which is the section of those 60'000 bugs known by
Microsoft to be fatal. ;-) 

-- 
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)

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