>>>The reality: As it is, however, hackers do not use the Hacker Equation -- they rather gauge their potential impact based solely on the popularity of an target software, and hence Mac and Linux and OpenOffice etc. have been largely spared too many serious hacking attempts.
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>>Not necessarily so. I've seen statistics on web server software attacks, where Apache holds above a half of the market (70%?), and IIS holds much less. So, Apache should be attacked much more, right? Well, the statistics say quite the opposite.
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>>No, I didn't keep the link.
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>Dragan:
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>Sorry, but you can't participate in a Serious Scientific Discussion without sources and references <g>. (That's why my "treatise" was self-referential and self sourced -- makes it easier to defend that way <bg>).

Well there's a creek nearby, but I never looked for its source :).

Since the creek reference is no reference (panta rhei, doesn't it?), try this for size. The article I had in mind was published a couple of years ago; this is fresh. Or google "apache iss virus attack stat".