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Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings
smelroy writes "Microsoft on Wednesday issued security bulletins for five new software vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Visual Basic for Applications that the company rated as critical. The company has posted patches for each of the flaws on its Web site. Four of the problems affect Microsoft's Office desktop software.
You can read the story here and the security bulletins here."
The idea that millions of eyes are on the code in Open Source has long ago been proven to be a complete fallicy. Even though a few who haven't gotten the message yet continue to parrot it. Bugs are only fixed in Open Source via the same exact mechanisms as closed source.
It has been my experience that Open Source has more bugs in it to start with. As a user and a developer, I run into these bugs far more often with O.S. code than I do closed. With very few exceptions, O.S. is written in a very poor development environment and all to frequently by people with very poor coding skills (read "skilz"). That is the true reason for it's extremely high patching rate.
Once we realize this, we can make it better. But constantly denying it is just making things worse!
Not to mention your completely transparent bias, indeed, even hate. That speaks to a completel lack of reasoning skills. Your opinion would be much easier to swallow if you ditched the diatribe and stopped parroting fallacies.
You have to use a tool to decide what you like? Or do you assume I set it up asking myself what others would think?
I am color deficient, and even I know that your website is an affront to all that is Good and Pure. 1997 called, they want their layout back.
You obviously haven't noticed the genius of my subject. It applies infinitely. Therefore, I can respond infinitely.
And you can be replaced by a very small perl script. Of course, so can I. But then again, that's my point.
And having been in the workforce more than a year, I can have just as much fun dealing with the childish.
I'm sure you can, after all it's easy when you dole out happy meals?
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.