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It is not a very good proxy for how likely you are to get 0wned. It is available, though, and I'm not convinced that it's so bad that a 5x (Linux kernel/FreeBSD) or 9.4x (Linux kernel/OpenBSD) difference still doesn't say anything.

Linus' words don't affect code quality; but wanting to move quickly does, and Linux does move quickly. I agree that Spengler is pretty awesome, though.




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