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Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study

Posted by Roblimo on from the Out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-Slashdot-fire dept.

Last week on Slashdot you saw a (Microsoft-funded) research study on Windows vs. (Novell) Linux reliability by Dr.Herbert Thompson. Novell disagreed with the study's conclusions. So did most Slashdot readers. Thompson's work been mentioned on Slashdot before, especially his famous five-line script that could change electronic voting machine results and his novel, The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency. He's a real, genuine-article computer security expert (and regular Slashdot reader) who is happy to put on his flame-resistant suit and discuss his Microsoft vs. Linux study with you. So ask whatever you like, one question per post. We'll send him 10 of the highest-moderated questions and publish his answers next Monday. He'll jump into the discussion then, which ought to make it rather lively.

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  1. Dear Sir.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Will we see this as a dup on /. in about a month?

  2. OBSimsons... by schon · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do you sleep at night?

    On top of a pile of money, surrounded by many beautiful ladies.

  3. Re:Results by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Funny

    Technical reason.

    Developers just not targetting it is not it. It isn't like multimedia libraries don't exist for many platforms including Linux.

    It's FUD spreading people like you who give OSS projects bad press. Go stand in the corner and think of what you did.

    Tom

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  4. This study was a complete joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    IIRC your genius admins botched glibc during the test period. If I set a monkey loose with a hex editor on Microsoft's libc in the middle of a similar test, I doubt that Microsoft would consider that fair. We often joke about windows admins been trained monkeys and I'd say your study almost confirms this. Why did you choose to use admins who were completely unfamiliar with the linux distro they were using?

  5. Career Question by flood6 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Many slashdot readers like myself are interested in furthering our careers in the technology industry. As a recognized and published security expert, I would like to ask you about a career choice.

    Which pays better, working on security-related projects or whoring?

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