Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it

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Um artigo provocador de Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols:

I have a modest suggestion. Since Microsoft can’t fix the buggy old code under Vista’s pretty new Aero exterior, why not open-source it and let free software developers do the job for them. I’m serious. Open-source software has its bugs too, but generally speaking open-source developers fix their programs’ security in hours to weeks. Microsoft? Please. Months can go by before security holes are fixed and, in the meantime, crackers create so-called zero-day attacks to exploit long-known security problems.

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