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Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux
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."
I can't keep from getting angry when I hear these kinds of totally false statements that Microsoft solves bugs quickly.
It wouldn't be so bad I guess, if it was from some lowly person like me saying it off the cuff, but to hear it from that totally rich bastard Bill Gates say it, really makes my blood boil. He's made all his money on lies, deception and hoodwinkery!
The sad thing is that many people believe him, because he's rich -- not because he is correct.
Microsoft's approach to solving bugs is this:
1. If it's broken, ignore it until it does major damage (because so much is broken, and you can make much more money on big disasters).
2. If it's NOT broken, fix it so you can sell the new version of it, and make more money, since if it's not broken, you must know how it works enough to change it so that it requires a new boxed version.
3. Repeat and feel free to interchange 1 & 2 after each step, because breaking the product is acceptable, since the public expects it sometimes.