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Because there's less soft targets of mainstream wealth on Linux desktop... ...and the 0 days are saved for valuable servers and embedded devices

• globular-toast 6y ago
  Way to miss the joke.
  • not2b 6y ago
    This was a good test to catch those HN members who don't bother to read the article but decide to argue with the headline.
    • Dylan16807 6y ago
      You can do both!
    • acct776 6y ago
      Busted...I usually do! Just thought this was a Stallman writeup. To be fair, the titles are usually similar.
  • chrismorgan 6y ago
    Look, if the title is “why GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon”, that’s fair game as a topic. In fact, you should expect that most of the discussion will be about that, rather than the self-deprecatory joke answer. Certainly it was last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291. (Also, my own observation is that it’s regularly far more amusing to take jokes seriously, ignore sarcasm, and otherwise wrest humour.)
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• fao_ 6y ago
  I'm not really sure how a virus that can infect a server wouldn't also target linux desktop unless it's targeting SSH or Ampache or something. It would still have a chance at hitting poorly configured developer machines, and yet people barely experience them edit: lol at the article
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