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Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nice-to-know dept.

BenBenBen writes "According to a whitepaper found on "a fairly insecure server", UNIX not only is more reliable and easier to maintain than Windows (2000 in this case), it's cheaper too. These shock results are reported on both The Register and (the source) Security Office."

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  1. give credit where credit is due by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    thank you freebsd.

    and before you go knocking MS saying that they take BSD-like-licensed OSS projects and re-release them and claim creativity, that's the beauty of the license. you linux whackjobs need to chill the hell out. props to daxbert.

  2. BUT! by Anarchofascist · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But! Microsoft is faster. So a more accurate summary of the article is "if you want to set up a fast, insecure, bloated and expensive server, choose Windows 2000."

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  3. Slashdotted by CowardNeal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    SecurityOffice site slashdotted, and it was probably running a Unix flavor. So much for reliability.

  4. Wow, you guys have no shame by cscx · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Here's a "white paper" that we heard from this guy who knows this kid
    who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. By the way, there is no official credible source.

    I read "The Register" like I read "The Weekly World News." It's a tabloid in every sense.

    Taco, I can't believe you had the balls to post this nonsense (which, if they're any truth to it, was written by a UNIX admin. WTF?)

    1. Re:Wow, you guys have no shame by Ektanoor · · Score: 2, Flamebait

      Who are the jerks that put this into Insightful??? While I may understand that this guy has an opinion that I may not like of, this is in no way "Insightful". Partially, this is Flamebait as it counts to the raw level of measuring what one of the /. admins has in his pants. Frankly there are here a few moderators that should start looking at the mirror before turning less appropriate opinions into highly-insightful crap. If this is a way to defend the opinion that /. is too penguinistic, you do not make your values richer by modding up cheap flamers and dumb trollers. You just side with them and show that you may go lower than the most stupid submitter in /. to defend your opinions.

  5. Re:Is This Necessarily Bad? by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    flamebait?

    yikes... mods on crack again :-)

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  6. Re:Nothing spectacular by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only thing that may raise eyebrows is the origin of the paper.

    Another forged "Microsoft Internal Memo" on slashdot shouldn't be raising eyebrows anymore. They have been posting them for years now.