wooow how to answer all these interesting points without making the longer and so (especially from me) more unreadable post of all this forum...

anyway i will try to make short (not sure i can) and to recenter over the topic: windows and monopoly as i think that all what i formerly said was related to it but maybe not so clearly...

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Science aside, lets look at things from this view and let’s look at Windows only.

it will be hard for me to put science aside as it is my job... as it seems hard to put your system administrator job aside when you're speaking about your experience... true, kyra? i will just add on this point that neither windows nor linux would have exist without computer scientist's works... but it is quite obvious.

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Plus, you seem to have a programmer’s knowledge. You know teams work on individual parts of a program. It doesn’t matter if all of the teams program parts mesh or not, come CODE FREEZE time the programmers have to start putting everything together. MS is not the only company that does this. More than 90% of the software development world follows this practice and then supplies patches to supplement for later.


yep i have some programmer's experience, but as a matter of fact mainly in a non industrial realm and in a realm where constraints are not the same (as it is for fundamental search) but anyway i know here you're more or less right. still companies who releases the main linux distros have not pushed this time constraint to the absurd as microsoft has (and yes i know devs @microsoft, and yes, there are very good devs, but there is a limit to what a dev can do in these work conditions)... and i will say that "patches" for linux have another meaning than "patches" for windows as linux is defined as evolutive through patches where patches for windows are mainly only attempt to correct errors...

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Then there’s the complaint about Windows and Viruses.
Well, why bother writing a virus code for Linux that would only affect 1% of the population. A person who develops a virus wants to hammer the greatest populace possible. That’s the only reason why Windows is always hit with a new virus here and there. It would be a waste to write one for the other OS’s.


i really disagree here. first, enterprises and administrations begin to use more willingly linux than windows as it decreases the cost and they are a good target for virus-makers. second: i don't think that it will be possible to write a virus code for all linux distros and there will always be more linux distros than windows ones! (this is one of the thing that found MS monopoly btw) so even if it would be 50-50 windows will be more susceptible to attacks. as the code is transparent in linux it is also more easy to make ad hoc AV...

ok, i have a lecture to do just now... so i will be back for the following part later... and really i will try to recenter on topic...




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