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.
