It's easy how they come to this conclusion. They will always come to this conclusion, and technically it is true. It has to do with the scope of what they're saying a flaw is. Ubuntu and RedHat unlike microsoft has tons of packages, including apache, pidgin, NFS, sendmail, bind (oh I could go on for days). These packages come with those linux distrubutions, thus if any of those packages have flaws or vunerabilities Microsoft tallies it down for a vulnerability against Redhat, and Ubuntu! However, in Microsoft's case Vista doesn't come with a webserver, or a DNS server, or an AIM client, or office even. All they have is a barely operational, fairly useless operating system! This is why these studys always crack me up cause they mean nothing. Your adding up the flaws in ALL Linux packages which rank in the thousands I'm sure (especially with Ubuntu) against the flaws in Vista. It makes perfect sense that Linux is going to lose this contest, but it means nothing! Microsoft sucks, they have always sucked and even though they put out these meaningless reports they still will suck.
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They played this game while testing vista, this totally explains the stock jump of 8000% in wrist band manufacturing...
It's easy how they come to this conclusion. They will always come to this conclusion, and technically it is true. It has to do with the scope of what they're saying a flaw is. Ubuntu and RedHat unlike microsoft has tons of packages, including apache, pidgin, NFS, sendmail, bind (oh I could go on for days). These packages come with those linux distrubutions, thus if any of those packages have flaws or vunerabilities Microsoft tallies it down for a vulnerability against Redhat, and Ubuntu! However, in Microsoft's case Vista doesn't come with a webserver, or a DNS server, or an AIM client, or office even. All they have is a barely operational, fairly useless operating system! This is why these studys always crack me up cause they mean nothing. Your adding up the flaws in ALL Linux packages which rank in the thousands I'm sure (especially with Ubuntu) against the flaws in Vista. It makes perfect sense that Linux is going to lose this contest, but it means nothing! Microsoft sucks, they have always sucked and even though they put out these meaningless reports they still will suck.