On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 7:09 pm, alex wrote: > My "crime," in the eyes of some Linuxen, is in the article > at http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013 . > You see, I counted the number of patches, bug fixes and > updates released for Red Hat Linux 7.2, and compared that to > the number of patches, bug fixes and updates released for > Windows XP. Even though both OSes have been out almost > exactly the same amount of time, and even though I > explicitly stated the caveats and conditions necessary for > the stats to make sense, some Linux fans simply couldn't > accept the numbers, which show that Linux has its own full > share of bugs--- some 151 patches to date. > >From which I think we could say - I told you so. The difference is that in Linux bugs are found and publicised, and patches released quickly. None of that is true for any Microsoft software.
No more to say. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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