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New IE Holes Discovered
joelt49 writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that 7 new security holes for Internet Explorer have been discovered by a Chinese researcher; however, there apparantly aren't any attacks on IE yet." The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list. Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.
Mod this up! The community is not QA - no matter how much the FSF would like us to believe.
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All the big names (yes, even Microsoft) spend a boatload of money making sure Joe User can actually use their software. The FSF folk don't have this because:
a) They *never* write flawed code.
b) Their utilities are so cryptic that no one in their right mind would want to use them.
If Mozilla is so good, why did they waste so much time building useless crap, like XUL? Its not a browser, its a widget set! And an IRC client! And mail client! And a HTML composer! And a desert topping!
The fact that the Mozilla foundation wasted so much time building useless components is further proof that Open Source stuff has no plan, no structure, and no management.
Morons like you spreading FUD make me sick. Perhaps if you knew what the hell you were talking about, you wouldn't look like such a moron. Many (most) of the OSS programmers are professionals, and it's quite clear that the develpers behind code like Apache, the Linux kernel, MySQL, etc are "Real programmers." Exim for example goes through full regression testing before any new versions are released.
MS has a long track record of creating patches that end up breaking crap - even to the point where Windows won't even boot. Are Microsoft programmers "real programmers?"
Are some OSS programmers bad? Sure, just as some commercial software programmers are bad. The number of bad / sloppy programmers on both sides is probably about the same. No amount of release Q/A process is going to fix bad programming (as all the holes in IE prove.)
I feel sorry for anybody who's too clueless to download Mozilla and run the installer.
IE and Outlook are the main vectors for all the 'Net nasties. Aren't people getting a litle sick and tired of this crap.
If I was running a business, M$ would be booted out about now for being the rancid piece of crap software that it obviously is.
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And yet the funny thing is, if the grandparent post had been slagging off bloat in M$ products, you would have been singning the poster's praises...
I love the smell of hypocrisy in slashdot these days.
People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
Face some facts, Junior, mindless zealots like you are a dime-a-dozen, and your startlingly comprehensive ignorance makes you much worse than any Microsoft fan. It is nice, however, to now have another example to use in my "why nobody likes linux fanboys" conversations.
But, it was clever of you to pick a nickname that outlines your level of communication skill and IQ in one fell-swoop.
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.