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Zealots R Us
OK, this is just silly people.
Linked here we have a couple of stories. One is that the beloved Mozilla exposes the potential to crash a user's machine. Dead. Three finger salute won't even work. If IE exposed this same flaw, people around the world would be pointing great self-righteous fingers at the Beast and spouting how horrible closed source software is.
But this is Mozilla we're talking about here. ./ didn't even carry the story UNTIL they'd found out about an IIS bug that allowed illegal access. The Mozilla bug that can crash your box is "minor" and the IIS bug is "major". Bullshit. A bug that crashes my box is major. Really major.
To help justify their bias, they throw in a tidbit about how it'll take MS three months to patch IIS but only 3 days to patch Mozilla. Ummm, I'm thinking apples to oranges here folks.
Anyway, I know that I am going to have to put on my asbestos layered, CFC cooled suit, so let's have it, then. Reg coverage of Moz bug
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Re: Zealots R Us
Suit may not be needed, THIS time. I agree with you, a bug that kills a machine is major, whatever software it is in, and it should have gotten more coverage. In fact, thats part of the reason I LIKE open source products, the positive AND NEGATIVE aspects, including bugs, usually get MORE COVERAGE. What I mean is they are not held back by mega corp x, they are simply posted on the mailing list, etc. All to see, all to test, all to address. Mozilla should never have made it this far with an issue like this, but I would agree with /. that the fix being 3 days is a big ADVANTAGE to a product, that advantage happens to be BECAUSE it is open source, but thats not WHY its an advantage, its an advantage because it gets better much faster.