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Windows Developers Agree: Linux More Secure

Posted by michael on from the statistical-games dept.

theblackdeer writes "eWeek has an article up about an Evans Data Corp survey that the majority of Windows developers agree that linux is a more secure OS. "Linux scored high for innate security among respondents, more than two- thirds of whom 'use or target Windows with their code.' Indeed, only 23 percent of the developers were primarily Linux developers.""

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  1. But why would you listen to a Windows developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Seriously, the people have been programming Windows all their career, and now somehow you ask them for authoritative opinion that requires knowledge of a multitude of platforms.

    What's next?

    Linus Torvalds agrees, VB is pretty cool.

    RMS agrees, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is the best tool available for J#.NET

    1. Re:But why would you listen to a Windows developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In related news, a survey also indicated that 99.82% of Windows programmers are currently logged in as "Administrator", and disabled all IE security features to make it easier to develop COM components.

      They might think that Linux is more secure, but it's doubtful that they care that much about security.

  2. Baloney by prostoalex · · Score: 3, Funny
    Put the following in your web server cgi-bin:
    #!/usr/bin/perl

    use CGI;

    my $cgi = new CGI;
    my $input = $cgi->param("userinput");
    system($input);
    and let me know what the URL of your Linux box is.
    1. Re:Baloney by vigilology · · Score: 5, Funny

      Give us the URL of your Microsoft box. You don't need to give us special permissions. We'll make our own.

    2. Re:Baloney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      haheheha change ur lunix pasward to hakked an I hak u! proof lunix si insekure!

  3. In other news... by ERJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, 3/4 of all carpenters polled agree that plastic tubing is better then metal tubing for plumming.

  4. What's a URL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    /home/www/cgi-bin doesn't exist, where to I put it? And how do I tell what the URL of my linux box is? I don't think Dell put a URL in when I bought the machine, can I get one a Best Buy?

  5. Re:Yeah but... by Feztaa · · Score: 3, Funny

    The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, of course.

    I think most windows developers are just fed up with all of windows' flaws, and when they responded to the poll, they were thinking "whatever 'linux' is, it has to be better than this" :)