Hi,

"Security is in the hands of the beholder".......if you do not know what you are doing, all OSes are vulnerable.

If you have open source then you are vulnerable in that a bad guy can see how it works?...in the case of the closed source, the bad guy can generally figure out how it works..........hell Gates would not have gotten that rich if he only employed angels and geniuses?......they are ordinary folks. And hacking is based on HOW IT WORKS, not on the potential of a system/language. It is very much a "suck it and see" activity?

IMHO vulnerabilities are attached to applications NOT sources.

I have a machine I just moved today...it is a trifle old, OK, but it runs the RISK operating system...........anyone out there under 40 fancy their chances?...I doubt it

It is closed source, but that does not matter.............not many of us would understand it anyway?

My final comment is that with closed source it is THEIR problem...with open source it is yours


Cheers