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Old 10-13-2006, 07:05 PM  
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Originally Posted by minusonebit View Post
You're joking, right? Microsoft spends the first several weeks to several months denying that problem even exists or blaming it on third party software before they even admit that there is a problem. The open source community is FAR more respsonsive to security threats. Open source does have its problems and they are not insignificant, but the time in which security stuff is being taken care of in open source is very impressive.
most of the recent holes have been patched quickly. ie is slowly getting better at that , the new ie has all the features of firefox , is faster and works. Firefox has open holes right now ( i.e. has a few too ) , but in comparison to users firefox isnt much better for security. if they gain market share they will gain exploits 2

i use i.e. 99% of the time have for years , i only use firefox to see if things works properly ( and they never do )
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