[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“A recent Aberdeen Group report claims that open source is less
secure than Windows.“And how did they come to this profound conclusion? Apparently,
they counted the number of CERT advisories in the past couple of
years and found more associated with open-source software than with
Windows.“Unfortunately, that’s like comparing the number of humans to
ants and concluding that ants must be the dominant species due to
their larger numbers. Simple numbers can yield incorrect
conclusions when taken out of context…”