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Originally posted by ShawnD1:
because MS is not retarded. they know that if they let people know how the system worked, they would get hacked by every MS hating person out there.
so, operating systems that release their entire source code, like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, GNU and Darwin all get "hacked" all the time do they? (they do, but you don't mean "hacked", you mean "cracked"). Only an operating system that is inherently shit could possibly be threatened by having its source code made public knowledge. Any decent system would be strengthened by opening its source code.
Many people love Microsoft blindly, and those people would probably love to "hack" Linux systems, why don't they? if open source systems are so insecure? If open source software was inherently insecure it would not have become so popular in mission critical situations, and Microsoft would have been paying people to show up these security holes all this time, you can be sure of that.
[ May 23, 2003: Message edited by: The Realist ]