" ... only to withdraw support months before Windows 95 hit the market."
Its a risk that comes with business venture!

This is true until when we discover how our own brain works and then copy it to robots. Although we already have some idea there's still a lot to research. When we can map and describe our brain functions (or majority of them) into some sort of mathematical form and implement them on robots, technological singularity becomes possible thus providing a way for robots to be more intelligent/creative/etc. then us.

If the target server is running one of the vulnerable scripts at specific URLs and is configured to permit external shell commands and remote file download in the PHP/CGI environment, a copy of the worm could be downloaded and execute

Its quite obvious that this is a real security malpractice. Even if someone allows external shell commands from web server they usually limit access to this kind of resources.

Perhaps the most interesting thing is that a Mac *could* be vulnerable to this attack. Yet 99.9% of the Macs out there aren't, because the system doesn't ship with the web server running by default. In other words, Linux is making Microsoft's mistakes all over again.

AFAIK, most distros let you choose which services will be installed, so its really up to user.