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Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the working-the-bugs-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In response to Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger's claim that "redistributions of the official Mozilla releases are never going to give you security updates as quickly as Mozilla", Christopher Aillon of Red Hat says that this is only because Mozilla doesn't play by the same rules as other OSS projects. He says that while other OSS projects work with vendors to achieve simeltaneous releases of patched software, Mozilla does no such thing unless compelled to do so."

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  1. Re:(null) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes but do you like being subjected to anal probes?

  2. simeltaneous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    simultaneous

  3. We tried working with Mozilla... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    An employee suggested to me that we load Firefox 1.0.4 on a few machines here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day surfing. So I decided to let him install the browser onto 5 machines to see how the users got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using on his system and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client machines?

    Once he'd got the machines up and running with 1.0.4 we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: Firefox was a pretty good replacement for IE and the users could still do their work as normal.

    Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not find things they were used to or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with IE. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when FF suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site and corrupted his project.

    Needless to say, the Mozilla team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee uninstall Firefox from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore.

  4. MOD THE CUNT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    +5 whatever

    PS: I have corn on my buttocks

  5. $YUO FAIL IT.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    everyday...We BitTorrent) S3cond, FreeBSD is Already and its long term

  6. and remind me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHY did we need FF when we already had Mozilla?
    See what happens when you split the OSS browser team into 2 camps?

  7. Re:Horrible Typo by Un-Thesis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So...I was the first visible person to point out the typo and it's labeled redundant? I don't understand :-/

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  8. Paunch? by BenjyD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that a beer belly sticking out in that guy's Matrix imitation, or just the way his shirt hangs? Distinctly less Matrix-stylee if the former.

  9. Re:Context... Context... Context... by mabhatter654 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    but again, "Netscape" is the AOL branded release...it has nothing to do with mozilla anymore execpt they always get the changes for their proprietary product. Netscape != Mozilla anymore. It's just another cheap rebranding scheme... AOL cut the Moz team loose a while ago... they've got no "responsibility" to Netscape anymore either.

  10. Re:Why is this a bad things? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If you're really concerned about security, you wouldn't be running Firefox. Not a troll, just an observation that bloated and complex software packages like Firefox cannot possibly be secure.

    That's why I use Internet Explorer. It's just a simple browser with no tabs and minimal web standards bloat. Great product.