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Originally Posted by fuzebox
Actually, the open source development model creates much more secure software, quicker. No software company can compete with thousands of talented developers working out of passion finding bugs and fixing them, sometimes within hours.
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there is a catch 22 on this and it's been debated since the dawn of computers - while you are correct that open source has a quicker identification and fixes for vunerabilities it is debated that their open source code leaves it easier for people to find and exploit those vunerabilities.
For 90% of webmasters and system admins it's not much of a big deal to use one or the other because they fly below the radar and it would be dumb luck for them to be hit.
I can say that I get more attacks on my *nix servers through apache/php/sql than any of my windows boxes on IIS/ASP/MSsql.