@honeymonster I don't believe he said Canonical made sure the applications are virus free. That's not what the article was focused on anyway. He said they make sure that they work with the current OS version and install smoothly. Yes the community or security researchers discover vulnerabilities in the software just like everywhere else. But that's where the difference comes in. People using Ubuntu will have the update pushed to them as soon as it'd ready. Do the users of the other OS have updates pushed to them? Do they even get notified that there's a problem if they aren't reading security sites or tech blogs? No they don't.
In your rush to blast the article you missed the entire point. It's at least better to be able to push out updates for vulnerable apps.
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