It’s the same with Linux, only the releases are public, which is better for everyone. I know that in the run-up to Vista gold, there were multiple releases of the Windows kernel as updates were added, and bugs fixed.

Yes, but a point release doesn’t mean that every vendor should update their distro’s kernel. Isn’t the Linux kernel updated every month or two? Apple users should be happy that the problems were identified and fixed. Anything that size is going to have loads of bugs no matter how well designed it is or how good their development practices are. In this case it is an enormous software product with millions of lines of code. It means that the vendor is trying to do the right thing by fixing their product. It means that those vulnerabilities don’t exist anymore.that they were fixed. I’d also like to say that patching vulnerabilities is a good thing, despite what certain people might have you believe. Posting “numbers of vulnerabilities” is completely meaningless. That’s right, someone who knows what those vulnerabilities actually mean. Vulnerability statistics are just that, statistics, and they need to be interpreted by a neutral party who is skilled in security research, not an OS fanboy looking to discredit a competing OS. Every time some article comes out about some OS having patches released there is a huge flood of posts about how “my OS is more secure than yours” with a bunch of links to secunia. You guys are a bunch of OS fanboys who know nothing about actual security research. Man I am SO sick of people parroting “numbers of security vulnerabilities”.

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