Slashdot Mirror
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."
Read it. It's the best TC0 analysis I've ever seen.
Scratch that, it's the only TC0 analysis I've ever seen.
(hint hint)
tasks(723) drafts(105) languages(484) examples(29106)
not only does Windows have a TCO, it has a TCP - Total Cost of pwn3rsh1p
A couple of definitions of "parody" for you: Google's and Wikipedia's.
tasks(723) drafts(105) languages(484) examples(29106)
Forget the (sic) part - the title of the document is indeed '0wnership'. This is a good case where those who don't RTFA will be totally off topic...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Excellent paper!! I h0pe the Cx0's 0ut there take a l0ng hard l00k.
In my 0rganizati0n, we've c0me t0 basically the same c0nclusi0n. In fact, the c0st 0f 0wnership f0r wind0ws f0r us has been *net negative*, due t0 the tremend0us number 0f an0nym0us v0lunteers we've f0und 0n the internet wh0 are m0re than willing t0 0wn 0ur machines f0r us!
Linux can't even t0uch that!
And we should be able to mod posters as "Didn't RTFA" / "RTFA, but didn't get that it was a joke"...
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
Dude, did you even read my paper? It's hardly MS propoganda. That's a zero on the front of 0wn. It's a play on words.
T-shirt: My other computer is your Windows box.
Take care,
brad
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!!!
Come on people, are we so paranoid that we cannot understand a parody anymore? Don't get so serious, it was one of the most fun thing I've read in a long time. And we get angry when they call us "zealots". Our advantage over the rest is that we are FREE to mock up ourselves (and mock with others, for sure) and this "paper" was amazingly competent in doing that.
Good job! I do expect people realize it's unique "point of view".
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.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I can't find the -1 didn't get the joke mod anywhere
Mod parent up!
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?
You seem to have missed the joke....
FTFA:
Summary
Immunity's findings clearly show that the best platform for your targets to be running is Microsoft Windows, allowing you unparalleled value for their dollar. This result reinforces the fact that its important to consider more than just licensing fees when your targets choose their OS. Indeed, a variety of factors go into their choice, and over time, Windows has demonstrated itself to be the top contender in the, in both the server and the desktop space for Total Cost of 0wnership.
(Emphasis mine)
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.
I'm beginning to think the only people that can write and get jokes like this are the stereotypical, jaded, cynical, Daily Show watching, The Onion reading, Simpsons quoting Gen X'ers like myself. And I base this conclusion on absolutely nothing. :)
I think we've raised satire into high art that only few can appreciate or even comprehend. From my point of view, I can't believe anyone that actually read the paper couldn't at least know it was intended to be joke even if they didn't actually understand it or why it was suppose to be funny.
I suppose it's like that with anything though. Like someone who is an art expert sees some piece of abstract piece as brilliant, but most people wouldn't even recognize or know it was even suppose to be art.
"Are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know anymore."
Its an attempt at satire. Unfortunately, it a total failure. About as funny as famine.
If the marketdroids at Microsoft are no more perceptive than many slashdotters, we should be seeing a link to this paper on the "Get The Facts About Linux" page real soon now...