I wasn't spreading FUD, I was supporting OSS in fact.
But well, now that you DID post what you did, I'm tempted to take u up on it.
Fact 1: 3 heavy-weight firewalls - nah, average user does not know to configure it.
Fact 2: IDS - average user has no idea how to analyze a log.
Fact 3: Nobody brings a vanilla WS2k3 server online. The only ones that do so would be pirates deluding themselves to be "31337 h4xx0r5" & using a server OS for desktop purposes.
Fact4: True legit buyers who run WS2k3 have complex procedures & deployment methodologies that go much farther than simply booting up from a CD & installing the OS alone.
Fact5: Since XPSP2 (=2 years ago), security has gone beyond IPsec. And where appropriate, server installations are reinforced with enterprise-class firewalls & transparent security solutions. None of this is anything rare, linux fan boi's have been so dis-connected from reality that they have no idea what they talk.
These fun facts are enough to prove that, while its true that linux CAN be more secure, in reality its not so by DEFAULT - and linux users perpetuating the myth of the "secure linux" are only harming the cause.
Amateurs start using linux & do almost nothing to secure themselves, since they are living under the false impressing that simply the act of using linux will keep them away from all trouble.
Its not true.
In the end, you are comparing dumb users of one OS, with expert hackers that use another OS. Is it any surprise that the 2nd one wins theoretically? Wouldn't they win whichever OS they used? Have you noticed that high-end deployments of
Windows & *nix are pretty much level on most parameters? When you compare experts on windows to experts on *nix, you see a similar picture of both managing their systems just fine.
And for any smarting responses to this, that have been posted without properly reading the content in this post, I will simply post a reply quoting my own words again, to be analysed for its full meaning.
Stop the anti-MS FUD.
(nothing personal against you max, its just that I've been in deep, on both sides - windows/linux - and take it as my responsibility to show the truth.
Plus, I like reasoning out things with you.
Depresses me to see a lack of intelligent, well-researched posts on here... I thrive on long-running huge posts that are almost articles!)
🙂