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Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security?
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."
Microsoft fucking suck.
I like cheese.
Which still makes it 10x better than the shit Microsoft never invented.
Well from the looks of it you should go too. If you aren't the IT manager what the hell are you doing running software evaluations? This is why you hire a professional, to check for compatibility issues and run controlled tests so that you know the software will meet all your needs. It's your kind of behaviour that leads to the typical chaos and crap that IT Managers are commonly complaining about. Uh Bob let's get that new Firefox thingy running for the employees, it's faster - so better. Great idea Dick lets put it on all the schmoes in sales as see what happens. Never mind thinking about corporate intranets built on proprietary IE infrastructure, or even seeing if there is an appropriate configuration for it, and rather then get people familiar with it before hand let the IT manager handle their complaints. He's running it, how hard can it be.
Yeah, you're right - they're just like those Debian guys with their logo. And we all know they don't care about openness!
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Interesting. I thought they worked with vendors to achieve simultaneous releases.
Nice "editing," Taco.
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Fuck you and die. Fucking retards like you are the reason people despise and fear anything remotely connected to FOSS. Money doesn't make something become non-Free, retard. You and whoever modded your dumb ass as insightful should both be castrated with a dull fork.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
If I run fedora, for example, if I'm concerned about security,
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.