KDE 3.1 Delayed - For A Very Good Reason

woobieman29 writes "KDE.news reported on Saturday that the KDE 3.1 release that was scheduled for this week has been delayed until early January. This is happening due to some security concerns that have arisen during a security audit of the 3.1 CVS tree. Kudos to the KDE team for making sure that the product is fully baked before release.!"

Comments

Re:Thank God

[roseblood]

Oh, and I forgot. First post.

Imagine the mess we'd be in if Microsoft could do this? Half of my gripes with M$ software stem from bugs and security holes. Now that they've become a monopoly by killing the competion, as opposed to outselling them via a offering a better product, they could take the time to squash bugs and plug holes. If all my practical reasons for disliking M$ go away, I'm left with nothing but dislike for their business practices...which are subjective decisions. That would certainly be a major blow to the anti-M$ crowd.

Good for Them

[MBCook]

This is good to see. Not only are they doing this for security, but this means it won't have too many bugs when it's released (which doesn't seem to be the case with alot of software these days).

In other news, uppon reading this, Microsoft declared a company wide day of laughing, stating "...this is the most rediculus strategy we've ever seen! Why if we did this, we'd still be working on DOS 4 or 5." Later in the conversation, the spokesperson asked to take back that statement and said if we printed it the BSA would come after us for liscenses.

Gotta go, there is a knock on the door...

Re:Good for Them

[jsse]

Kudos to the KDE team for making sure that the product is fully baked before release.!

On the contrary, MS makes sure that their products are fully toasted after release.

Re:Details on the concerns?

[Randolpho]

That's on a need to know basis, and you don't. :)

Well, I suppose they could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.