> According to advocates like Scott Granneman, Linux provides better > protection compared to Microsoft Windows
Making a software Free doesn't mean that it won't contain malicious features. It may have malicious features too. The fact is that the person who introduce those malicious features can't make it stick to the software, as in Proprietary software. As the source code is available with the free software, the user of that Free Software can always take the malicious feature out. So eventually, the Software will not contain any malicious feature as it improves. Thus the intention of the person who introduced the malicious feature will fail. But this case will never happen with proprietary software. That is the "better protection" Free Software gives. Regards, Collin, Jos. _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
