More than half of Windows machines are INFECTED with malware

[Derek Broughton]

Samuel Thurston, III wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gmatht at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> So Google contributes almost ten times more code to the kernel than
>> Canonical? Last I heard Canonical earns under $30 million while Google
>> earns over $10,000 million, so Google is hundreds of times larger.
>> Which means that Google contributes a vastly smaller slice of their
>> income to the Linux kernel.
> 
> I thought about this facet of the argument, and I only wonder how much
> of that is offset by the fact that Google's core business isn't really
> built around Linux, and could much more easily switch to another
> platform (say nexenta) than Canonical could eschew Linux.  I'm not
> saying your point isn't valid, just raising a possible counterpoint.

I don't think there's any ground to judge, there.  Why would Google be able 
to switch kernels any more easily than Ubuntu?  I think that was my point 
way back - Ubuntu's core business isn't built around Linux either.  It's 
built around Gnome, and any unix-like kernel should suffice.
-- 
derek