• The Death Star plans were secret, but rebels managed to obtain them anyway.

• Windows is closed source, but people keep managing to steal bits of code anyway.

• The Empire was confident that The Death Star was secure and couldn’t be compromised.

• Microsoft is confident that Windows is secure and cannot be compromised.

• Occassionally, rebellious hackers stumble across Windows vulnerabilities that nobody noticed before or thought was important.

• The rebels discovered a vulnerability into the Death Star that nobody noticed before or thought was important.

• Windows slowly positions itself to wipe out the competition.

• The Death Star slowly positions itself to wipe out the competition.

• Microsoft analyses virus attacks and discovers that there is some danger… albeit too late.

• The Empire analyzed the rebel attack and discovered that there was some danger… albeit too late.

• Script kiddies sometimes take devastatingly accurate shots at these backdoors and weaknesses.

• Luke Skywalker took a devastatingly accurate shot at the Death Star’s exhaust port.

• Microsoft is attempting to rebuild Windows from the ground up, promising to make it better than before although it looks pretty much the same.
• The Empire tried to rebuild The Death Star from the ground up, promising to make it better than before although it looks pretty much the same.

Therefore… we can conclude the following:

• Luke Skywalker is a script kiddie.

• The Apple switcher campaign should feature Harrison Ford shouting, “Great shot kid, that was one in a million! Let’s blow this thing so we can go home!”

• When Windows explodes… oooohhh… pretty.

• Hackers should have medals presented to them by Carrie Fisher.

• Bill Gates is Linus Torvald’s father.

• And finally: Microsoft should not put too much faith in this technological terror they’ve constructed… the ability to destroy the competition is insignificant next to the power of open source.

(via: isotopp)