So, you say it's the hardware.  What magical hardware would make Microsoft the 
equivalent of OpenBSD in terms of time to ownership on a network and uptime? 

Why should anyone care?  Today GNU/Linux works and Microsoft does not.  Why 
should anyone bother with something that's been and continues to be so easy 
to break?    

On Friday 28 January 2005 11:07 am, Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> Let me add to this that if it weren't for the insecurity of x86
> architecture, Windows/OpenBSD wouldn't have to spend time developing
> fixes and security schemes for buffer overflows and stack smashing
> attacks.  The NX flag (on AMD64 archs) tries to alleviate this
> problem, but i believe there are ways around this.

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