Evolution theory is based on getting better from NON intelligence. Intelligence is NOT in the equation.
Linux and other free software is based on the collective intelligence of a whole lot of very smart people. If I was a programmer I would be a bit insulted if someone said my work, hard thought and know-how was in fact based on random input. I'd object and say that I don't just type in random characters into the keyboard along with a zillion other programmers and there happens to be the odd one that makes a good program. AND then some other RANDOM process figures out which is the best working program and includes that in the Linux kernel without any testing or whatever. NO.
Linux changes and gets better and better over time as bit like modern car design or jet aircraft from biplane over time. It's refinement over time but it's NEVER random. How can something get better without intelligence behind it? Linux is MADE to be virus resistant by design. And design means a designer. And a designer means intelligence. Linux people are intelligent people. THAT'S why we don't get viruses. We use our intelligence.
Ben.
Richard Neal wrote:
The nearest single analogy I can come across that explains Linux security is Linux is based on an "evolutionary" development platform were the fittest and most diverse survive. Were windows has a forced evolutionary development based on what sells software. As anyone who has studied evolutionary science can attest the more diverse and random your genetic makeup, the higher the probability of survival in the natural ever on going virus arms race.
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