A variation, while also technically correct, is “malware is not (necessarily) a virus”, as is the case when you show this to them: http://www.fsdaily.com/EndUser/Yet_More_Malware_Found_on_Gnome_Look

Windows7Sins.org sums it up your second™ nicely: “Proprietary software is inherently less-secure than free software.”

Yeah. As soon as you put “$0.00” next to any piece of code you write, it automagically becomes bullet-proof. Putting anything above zero in your pricetag is like Kryptonite to code.

I’ve added the InherentlySecure™ trademark as it sounded worthy.

Even by the standards of Windows7Sins, which are pitifully low, that’s a particularly ugly and inept page.

I actually tried clicking on their “link” (yes, I know, I’m a sucker for malware). It goes nowhere.

That’s a shame. I was looking for a feisty little philosophical argument which would explain why software that goes to some trouble to prevent piracy and defend its own intellectual property — whatever one might think about the ethics thereof — is “inherently” less secure than software provided with a licence that, basically, allows you to sit back and consider possible security attacks at your leisure.

That would have been fun.

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