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Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership
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."
That was weird. It felt like a joke as I was reading it, and when I was done I backed out to the fairly professional looking website. Even after reading some posts, it seems like some other people here can't really tell either, although it was kinda funny. Forgive and correct me if I'm wrong, because I've never heard of this company, but it looks like some 1337 h4x0rz who hired an art guy for the website and someone who faked a technical communications degree to proofread and format their reports.
Linux (FC2) has had 3 0-day exploits, average time 6 days? wha? And they explicitly don't count rootkits, so it's only an upfront cost of 0wnership, not a /total/ cost of 0wnership...
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
The article is clearly inconsistant even with itself:
As much as few professional NASCAR drivers drive Dodge Neons, a negligible amount of skilled hackers use Windows as their primary OS.
Later in the same paragraph, it decides to insult OS X as being insecure:
As clearly demonstrated, other than the toy OS Mac OS X, Windows has the lowest TC0 on the market.
The article is at best childish propaganda. Why was this posted?
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Difficulty of owning windows versus difficulty of making this graph??? What the heck is that?