Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed

hypnosec writes "How long does a bug take to get resolved? A week? A month? A year? Well, a bug prevalent in the KDE libraries since 2002 has finally been resolved after a decade it has been revealed. The bug was present in the "Reject Cross-Domain Cookies" feature of KDE Libraries. Thiago Macieira noted in the KDE Libraries Revision 974b14b8 that he observed that his web cookies were being forgotten following a kded restart."

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Re:Atleast it is better than an unfixed Windows bu

[binarylarry]

I've been asking them to get rid of the Start Menu for years and they finally did it with a recent release.

I hope they remove networking capability next and maybe add more DRM.

@SteveBallmer @Microsoft

Re:Can't decide if it's embarrassing or impressive

[hairyfeet]

No matter whether you are embarrassed or impressed its just more proof that "many eyes" myth is just that, a total myth.

I'll get hate for saying it but fuck it frankly it has amazed me that myth has hung on as long as it did because it makes some pretty glaring assumptions that even a moment's thought would show just don't work and while I often don't agree with their conclusions on some issues one thing FOSS advocates usually do is follow logic to its conclusion.

The "many eyes" myth makes some pretty easy to punch through assumptions, 1.- That because something CAN happen means it HAS happened. This would be like claiming that somebody has climbed K2 wearing bunny slippers because theoretically somebody could climb K2 wearing bunny slippers. Just because something is POSSIBLE does NOT make it probable or even likely 2.- That all the projects out there, no matter how small or hidden from sight, will get the same attention. I bet every FOSS advocate on the planet has used LO/OO.o multiple times...show of hands, how many of you have actually LOOKED at the freely available source code? How many of you have submitted changes to that code? And that is one of the most popular FOSS programs on the planet, what are the odds that little subsystem hidden away in the middle of most distros has been read and edited by ANYBODY other than the guys maintaining it?

The ONLY real advantages source code brings has nothing to do with bugs, it has to do with that fact that 1.- if you have the skills and free time or 2.- Have the money to hire somebody else's free time and skills you can take a product that is EOL or doesn't run on the platform you want and make it do as you will. LO doesn't run on MIPS? You can port it or pay somebody to port it. For some reason you need Gnome 1 to run on the latest kernel? You can hire a dev team and make it so. But that doesn't magically do a damned thing about bugs, as this along with the KDELook malware or the fact that even kernel.org ended up hacked proves. Having code has its advantages but making bugs disappear? NOT one of them.

Oh and I'm sorry but the "Linus rant" was a Christian Bale douchebag rant that was completely uncalled for. The guy was working on an extremely complex subsystem with some pretty serious issues, he asks a simple question about why a value returned HAS to be X while pointing out that in the subsystem he is working on dozens of drivers do NOT return X so the application in question is gonna fucking crash anyway, and instead of taking the exact same amount of time to say "It has to be thus because" he goes superdouche. I'm sorry but I don't care if you are Bob the mailman or the fucking pope, nobody gets a license to be a douchebag and that rant was total douchebag. It was quite obvious the little prick just expects a "yes master" to anything he says, no questions asked, and when this guy dares to ask what is frankly a damned good question he gets shit on? Nope, sorry, Linus is a douchebag and deserved to be called on it.