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There are a lot more Windows desktops than UNIX servers. Just picture that every UNIX server is in average serving more than one Windows machine.

Also, it is way easier to attack a desktop than a server. Desktop users are more careless than server admins and have many more different applications malware can use to gain access: im apps, browsers, media players, pdf viewers, flash runtimes, etc. To attack a server you have to find an exploit using an http, ftp or ssh request to a limited and more secure, in general, set of programs.

Apple is growing very fast and it is finding itself in that position now. You can see that in the new security measures of the Mac App Store. By limiting what apps itself can do you limit what malware gaining access to those apps can do. Maybe Microsoft should have done something similar to prevent Windows from being the virus hub.

Here in Uruguay the carrier is allowed to keep your phone locked after the contract expires. I have an Iphone from Movistar and they say they won't unlock it. It is a shame, because I used to travel and couldn't use my phone in countries where Movistar isn't established or doesn't have a deal with a local carrier.

Here the only way to get a subsidized Iphone is from two companies which won't unlock your phone. The third one, the public one, couldn't make a deal with Apple to offer it. So I guess my next phone is going to be an Android.

That's awful. What kind of response did you get when trying to prove them wrong? Did you talk only to your ISP or someone from the government?

Yes, that's true. But I need a sane build environment with development packages. I would like to be able to compile against libcurl and openssl as easy as it is on Ubuntu or Fedora. Something like Cygwin but without the GPL requirement on final builds.

I am using the vanillia one and it is very good. The only problem I have with it is that I have to compile everything for it. Sometimes doing so is not so straight-forward and can take a lot of time, boost being one example.

Yes, but Cygwin makes your software GPL, and that's not something I can do.

I had high hopes when I saw the title. I was expecting something for getting MinGW precompiled libraries like openssl, curl or boost; which I find needing more than often.