Don’t get me wrong I love the idea of free (and open source) volunteer supported software, both philosophically and as you point out for reasons of agility. debian is my Linux distro of choice. And I prefer not buying/using Microshaft as much as I like avoiding Monster Cable. Unfortunately some of my PC use must interface with DOD computers and programs and guess what they use?
When I was attending UW Madison my roommate was always having to run in to his department to repair the damage done by hackers to their Linux network and try to find and patch the hole that they got in through and this guy even knew what he was doing, but I imagine home users are still pretty safe for the most part though China may be changing that.
