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Patrick Logan makes some excellent observations about security, closed source, and open source, ending with this:

Open source that is poorly designed is not safe. Closed source that is poorly designed and then released in the open is even less safe.

That's an excellent point, and - in a nutshell - the problem that MS faces with Windows