Well, there is some good news from this article, news unrelated to saving a bunch of money on car insurance.

The good news is that Linux market share is increasing in the area where it matters: the non-geek market. If Washington Mutual recently fended off "countless" phishing sites based in rootkit-ed Linux, we're talking numbers of computers a large corporation would consider "countless". If the majority of those were Linux, then large numbers of non-geeks are now installing Linux, which should be a concern for the Microsoft sponsor, not a blessing.

The fact that Microsoft has spent the last three decades increasing their customers' tolerance for security vulnerabilities in their OS and software, coupled with long delays in fixing them, means the upsurge in Linux installs won't be swayed by some announcement that a security vulnerability has been found in Linux. Hoist on their own petard.

Now if we can only get Ubuntu and Linspire to stop making the first user account password into the root account password, I think things would improve.

--- Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:

This is what happens when you can put a Linux webserver on-line without ever reading a single doc file or having to look at that horrIfying command line:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/ebay_paypal_online_banking/

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