>The occasional bug doesn't obviate the maturity of the system. Here you are hoping that the reader will equate "mature" with fewer bugs, but in reality the on

>The occasional bug doesn't obviate the maturity of the system. Here you are hoping that the reader will equate "mature" with fewer bugs, but in reality the only sense that Linux is obviously and incontestably mature is in the sense of having existed for many years. Have you considered the possibility that Linux is adding security holes at a rate higher than they are being removed? I see a lot of evidence that that is so (and has always been so). There is certainly a lot of new code being added to the project all the time.