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Microsoft has declared war on open-source software. I have to laugh.

I give away my software for free, so I guess I am now at war with Microsoft. Excuse me while I climb onto my roof to fire up that cauldron of oil.

According to Craig Mundie, senior VP at Microsoft, open-source software creates greater dangers of security risks. Mundie’s timing is poor… just yesterday, a major security flaw was discovered in Microsoft’s IIS webserver. In case you missed it, here’s a telling quote from CERT: “A vulnerability exists in Microsoft IIS 5.0 running on Windows 2000 that allows a remote intruder to run arbitrary code on the victim machine, allowing them to gain complete administrative control of the machine.”

In contrast, the last time anyone found a security bug in open-source webserver Apache (the most popular webserver software in the world) that was so severe that it allowed a third party “complete administrative control” of the machine was… actually, hmm, I don’t think that’s ever happened.