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Month of Apple Fixes

Posted by kdawson on from the mister-fixit dept.

das writes "On the same day as the launch of the Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) (blog), Landon Fuller, a programmer, Darwin developer, and former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group, has launched an effort to provide runtime fixes for each MOAB issue as they are released. A fix has already been posted for the first MOAB issue."

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  1. It's not even shipped by default ! by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So

    [simon:~] simon% vlc
    tcsh: vlc: Command not found.
    [simon:~] simon% perl VLCMediaSlayer-x86.pl
    jump address is: 0x41424344
    writing to file: pwnage.m3u
    [simon:~] simon% open pwnage.m3u
    [simon:~] simon% (opens iTunes)

    the application for this second bug is not even shipped on Mac's by default! Meaning that this completely 3rd-party software, if installed onto a Mac, can cause problems with the Mac. And this is Apple's problem how, exactly ?

    Simon

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  2. Sorry, but that's bogus by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was going to use a stronger word, but my New Years resolution is still (diminishingly) in effect...

    If Apple don't supply a piece of software, it is *not* their fault that there can be subsequent problems using that piece of software, it's the program-author's fault. Obviously vlc isn't completely necessary (otherwise I would have it installed, I install a fair amount of linux-related s/w). I do have windows-media player and realmedia player installed...

    To say that just because Apple don't supply a particular feature (viewing movies that require codec XXX), it's Apple's problem when you install 3rd-party software that does is just ... wrong. I can't think how you could think that. It's hard to construct an argument when your starting premise is just nonsense.

    By the same logic, it's Apple's fault that:

      - I can't run my FPGA-mapping software on my Mac Pro, because Xilinx don't support the Mac. Apple ought to do something.
      - I can't run any game I want on the Mac. Curse those game-producing companies, oh no, wait, it's Apple's fault.
      - My Mac doesn't make toast! How simple is making toast? Apple ought to pull their finger out!
      - ad nauseum.

    Install 3rd-party software, have problems with that software, blame the software author. Don't blame the machine manufacturer / operating-system provider.

    Moan like buggery (*) (hmm, unfortunate turn of phrase :-) that QT doesn't support the codecs that you want, but it's not Apple's fault that other 3rd-party codecs have bugs in. Yes, I'm a Mac fan, but not a fanboy - I completely agree with bug #1, but this is just completely ... bogus.

    Simon

    (*) "Moan like buggery" isn't really rude where I come from, oddly enough...

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