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Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the arguing-over-who-sucks-less dept.

petard writes "In a very interesting interview published by the Register, Bill Gates made several interesting claims about Longhorn. Many of them have been extensively covered recently, including plans to force users to patch automatically. Surprisingly, everyone seems to have overlooked his statement that Microsoft fixes bugs faster than Linux developers do. 'We've gone from little over 40 hours on average to 24 hours. With Linux, that would be a couple of weeks on average.' Either he's lying or woefully misinformed; their recent performance seems to be more on the order of 3+ months, or over 2000 hours."

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  1. Maybe? by grasshoppa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they meant they make bugs faster?

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    1. Re:Maybe? by Illbay · · Score: 3, Funny
      Interesting how in this case "faster" means "more often."

      HINT TO BILL: Maybe hardly EVER needing a patch is a GOOD THING.

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  2. Re:he's probably not lying... by horza · · Score: 3, Funny


    - Linux community touted it as proof patches were fast, because it was into the source tree in 90 minutes
    - It took one month before KDE released a new binary compiled with the patch
    - It took an additional month before Redhat incorporated this into a patch for their Linux distribution.

    The Linux community claimed 90 minutes, when it was really two months.

    Or overnight for those of us using Gentoo.

    Phillip.

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