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Originally Posted by cromag
It's self-evident. Email Microsoft or Apple and ask to see the source code for any part of their OS or commercial releases. It's closed.
Linux is open. Anyone can offer their own tweaked version, or tweak it for their own use.
You may not like the "bashing" of Microsoft (I assume that was intentional?  ) but to suggest that their worlds are open is naive at best. |
I never suggested that. I was mainly objecting to this statement: "Compare this to Windows/OS X which believe obscurity equals protection; they are counting on the fact that because you can't see the code, it will be harder to find the flaws that are there."
Where is the evidence that Microsoft "believe obscurity equals protection"? Whether Windows/OS X are open or closed has little to do with how secure they are. Being open source did not prevent the bash security flaw, which has been around for a long time. I could characterise this as "linux users believe open source equals protection". See what I did there?
Is there any evidence for how secure Windows is compared to Linux? (which would have to take into account lots of factors, including their relative popularity).