Novell Doubts Microsoft Latest "Linux Facts"

Robert writes "Microsoft Corp's "Get the Facts" campaign comparing Windows with Linux continues to prove controversial, with Novell Inc describing the latest set of facts offered up by Microsoft as "misdirection." The latest report offered up by Microsoft as evidence that Windows is a better bet than Linux is a white paper from Security Innovation Inc that compares maintenance, patch application, and system failures related to a migration from Windows Server 2000 to 2003, and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 to SLES 9. The report found that there were more system failures experienced by Linux systems administrators, and that more patches needed to be applied to the Linux systems, while more time was required to complete the Linux migration."

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OMFG

[DaPoulpe]

Microsoft may have got their facts wrong in their Windows/Linux comparisons ?
OMG my world is so falling appart !
Sun seems less bright, my coke doesn't taste like it used to, I have suddenly lost interest in the opposite sex...
Please give me something else to beleive in !

Why bother?

[flyinwhitey]

Why do so many people insist on posting circumstantial ad hominems?

For those of you who think mentioning a studies association to certain funders is insightful, or even relevant,

"A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest. In some cases, this fallacy involves substituting an attack on a person's circumstances (such as the person's religion, political affiliation, ethnic background, etc.). The fallacy has the following forms:

      1. Person A makes claim X.
      2. Person B asserts that A makes claim X because it is in A's interest to claim X.
      3. Therefore claim X is false."

Just because YOU can't maintain objectivity, that's no reason to assign such character failings to other researchers.

You may not like that MS funded this study, but that's not relevant, no matter how much you want it to be.