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Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership

Posted by michael on from the you-go-girl dept.

bahamutirc writes "Dave Aitel of Immunity, Inc. has written an excellent report detailing the lower Total Cost of 0wnership Microsoft Windows has over Linux. Dave takes a unique approach in comparing the two operating systems, and the results are not surprising. The paper was submitted to Bugtraq today and is available in PDF and Open Office."

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  1. Re:0wned? Please... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Informative

    A couple of definitions of "parody" for you: Google's and Wikipedia's.

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  2. Re:A 189 KB PDF file... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uhm, you do realize that this is a joke report. It's TC0 (zero), not TCO. This report is about how 0wn1ng W1nd0z3 is easier than Linux, not "owning Windows." That should teach you to at least puruse the article before posting nonsense. To repeat: This is a JOKE!!!

  3. Re:TCO's can be written to defend either case by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a TC0, not a TCO- and I doubt you could come to any other conclusion with a TC0 comparing Linux to Windows. Total cost of 0wnership- that is, total cost to hack the box and get it to send out a bunch of spam or viruses.

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  4. wow by flynt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently a large portion of the Slashdot commenters aren't aware of what '0wn' means in the hacker/cracker sense of the word. If you root a machine, you 'own' it. "I got 0wned" means "I got hacked/broken into". Now look at the title of this report, total cost of '0wnership', not 'Ownership'. Now do you understand the joke/point of the paper?