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Linux Security vs. Microsoft/Windows

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."-Linus' Law



Open source code is transparent. Anyone who knows what they are looking for can examine it. The community of users are volunteers testing applications that are properly tagged as alpha or beta. That community benefits from free software. Software that can be modified without legal impediments.



When I first encountered it, my skepticism is like how can anything work? Since joining a community (even without programming skills) I have seen things work from the inside. It's amazing that I give so little time (free time) and get an operating system and all the software that I need to do my job. I also get excellent support when I meet challenges.

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Windows is, yes even now, built on a single-user working on a solo machine model. In addition, Windows was designed to make it very easy for programs to trade data and instructions with each other. That’s why it’s so easy to move data from say Word to Excel and back again. The bad news is that these IPCs (interprocess communications), procedures that were never designed with security in mind.
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