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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: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.