Are we too naive by believing that GNU/Linux is more secure by design?

[ Thanks to Edmundo for this link. ]

"Now, there are people that say that it's just that GNU/Linux is less attractive to malware software because there are so few of us GNU/Linux users. I have always thought that this is crap but anyway....

"Now, think about the things that FLOSS developers get to do:
- Crack encrypted DVDs
- Allow for communication between Microsoft Windows hosts (with a twisted SMB protocol) and *NIX hosts before Microsoft (reluctantly... but with a lot of PR spin, as usual) released the documentation about it
- Synchronize with iTunes"

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