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Re: LAMP vs Microsoft


On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Bob Beck wrote:

>
> > And I think vulnerabilities disclosed are a much better indicator
> > of the changes to QA/development of products than any hyperbole
> > from those responsible (be it management or developers.)
>
> 	No, I think vulnerabilities disclosed is simply a measure of how much
> development and deployment is happening on the platform. period.

I think that is rather inaccurate. I know companies like ISS claim on
internal presentations that they do a lot of code auditing for companies
like Microsoft. These audits are never publicly available and may contain
significant numbers you can not see with closed-source products. The same
procedure simply is not availble to open-source products which are
developed in a completely different way.

So I think that unless one can get these indoor figures out on the street
there is no way you can compare figures.

Hugo.

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