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Originally posted by Zombie9920:
Heh, I tried BadKarmas' trick and it didn't work. Now I know why....because I have XP SP1 installed on my machine(unfortunatley I had to reboot to apply SP1 so there goes my uptime 
) . ;P
It looks like Windows is magnificent. I mean shit, MS does fix vunerabilities and MS is good at offering Service Packs(because they are always working to improve thier software) for thier NT based OSes. ;P
We don't have to rely on fixes by members of the Windows community like you all have to do with Linux. Who is to say that there aren't some members of the linux community who release malicious fixes to Linux problems? At least us Windows users know that we aren't recieving malicious shit.
haw haw haw! I'm glad you decided to stick around, zombie62786327648732, i like a good laugh!
well, i'm feeling a bit bored, so maybe i will answer your 'questions'...
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It looks like Windows is magnificent. I mean shit,
yes, you do mean shit, at least i'll agree with you there.
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MS does fix vunerabilities
after weeks, months or even years, yes. Remember the C:/con/con bug? quite a serious one i would have thought. It has been present in every version of windows 95 and 98, and the patch was finally released in 2000. pathetic. The only time they even consider releasing a patch is if somebody
else finds a bug! i mean, if Microsoft are the only ones with access to the windows source code, then they have a responsibility to release patches for bugs
before people find out about them.
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and MS is good at offering Service Packs(because they are always working to improve thier software) for thier NT based OSes. ;P
oh please! i think we dealt with this in the previous answer, did we not? M$ are 'good' at releasing service packs in the same way that banks are 'good' at lending money. they always do it grudgingly, always too late, and it never turns out to actually help in the end anyway.
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We don't have to rely on fixes by members of the Windows community like you all have to do with Linux.
and in what way is this a good thing? on one hand we have a monopolistic company employing a few guys on a salary to make patches for this huge bug of an 'operating system', now where's their incentive to do a good job? Those guys are probably not allowed to see the whole of the source code for the system either for security reasons and this is probably why many Microsoft programs create huge gaping security problems in many
other Microsoft programs. On the other hand you have a large community of people, doing it for the love of it, who all have access to all the source code they need, who are all reading each other's code and checking for bugs and who are usually very good at bringing out fast updates and writing concise documentation, not to mention making their work easy to find on the internet (unlike some corporations i might mention).
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Who is to say that there aren't some members of the linux community who release malicious fixes to Linux problems?
everybody dumbass! the POINT of it all being open source is so people cannot do just that! let me make an example, since simple explanation is beyond you:
let us say voidmain has a particularly odd change of habits and ingeniously attempts to write some network related program with code hidden in it designed to email him info about people's computers, what software versions they have etc, in the hopes that he can then exploit those vulnerabilities at a later time. Now i might hasten to add that i cannot imagine him ever doing this, but this is an EXAMPLE, okay? right, so he's written this program, and he makes it available on the internet under the GPL. Right away, about fifty people download the source for it and within hours, you can bet somebody will have spotted what the extra code in his program does and put the word around about it. additionally that person (or somebody who hears about it) will probably take out all the spyware, and make the new clean version available for download, again under the GPL (since any modified GPL program is required legally to also be GPL). So within hours, the bug has been spotted, sorted, and fixed, totally bypassing the intentions of the evil voidmain, who will probably realise the error of his ill guided actions and become a powerful force for good as a result.
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At least us Windows users know that we aren't recieving malicious shit.
sometimes i think you throw these little quips in there as a joke! all closed source software is a mystery. run a closed source program on your machine and it could do anything. if the user who runs the program has access to system files, then the system could be corrupted or wiped. This is not a problem in a unix environment, since normal users do not have access to system files. in windows, users have access to system files by default. to coin a yank phrase, "you do the math". If the system itself is closed source (which is fucking dumb, as you can see from the things i point out above) then your problem is not just of isolated programs doing unpredictable things, but even if you run a program you are totally sure of, who can say the
system might not do unpredictable things (ie wipe drives, corrupt data, etc)? Worse, even if your program does not have access to system files, your system certainly does! so if the system is the problem, then expect trouble.
Now i do expect you to miss most of the points i have outlined here, but do try to understand, it is so rarely i actually attempt to formulate a reply to your farcical attempts to defend microsoft windows, zombie6378637286138... until the next time....
