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Worst Bug or Shortcomings in a Standard?

Posted by Cliff on from the needed-more-time-on-the-drawing-board dept.

Alastair asks: "Just curious what the Slashdot crowd thinks are the worst bugs ever to creep into a standard? For mine, the various security vulnerabilities in WEP would make the grade. Also perhaps the lack of a protocol field in HDLC, and which most implementations added in a non-compatible way. I'm thinking here about bugs which result in partial or total irrelevance of the standard itself, as opposed to just a lack of interest in adopting it."

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  1. Windows by cuteseal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Windows. Nuff said. :D

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    1. Re:Windows by bugmenot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Absolutely right.

      Apparently the ideas of customer support, frequent security updates, and a professional development team are completely lost on the Slashdot If-its-not-free-its-not-for-me tin-foil-hat crowd.

      Windows 2003 is the best server I've ever had the pleasure of administering. And yes, I've had plenty of experience with both Linux and FreeBSD. Win2k3 beats them all in performance, price, and maintainability.

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