Competiton: Mozilla's 200,000th Bug

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that Mozilla's 200,000th bug will soon be reported. Not terribly exciting in itself, but they're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the bug will be reported to Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug reporting tool. The prize is a Mozilla 1.0 CD that might actually be worth something one day. Anyone can enter, so let's see if we can have a Slashdot winner (we can all share in the glory)! To help you, they're up to 178,325 and 51 bugs have been filled today. (NOTE: Although almost 200,000 bugs have been reported, there are not - and have not been - that many bugs in Mozilla.)"

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Brilliant pre-emptive strike, guys!

[dave-fu]

Curious that another fluff story about X00,000 bugs (haven't I seen this before?) in Mozilla is front-page news the same day that The Register reports just how many critical bugs Mozilla 1.0.1 (and one information leak that's persisted over to 1.1) and previous are shipping with. DoS? XSS? HTTPS flaws? Oh, they're in there.
If this was IE we were talking about, that would mean six more front page news postings (at least) but since this is Mozilla we're talking about, we get the fluff piece here giving the old reacharound to the Mozilla team and ignore the other glaring flaws.
Not that there ever were any glaring flaws because open source is more powerful and everyone checks all the source code before they compile, right?