Does FF worry that an unscrupulous add-on developer could produce what could be a click-fraud capable bot net hidden in an add-on that could be promoted and distributed by FF team? What steps are taken to prevent it given the add-ons are no signed or hosted by FF?
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Paul
He said software quality ... heh heh heh
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I've worked in companies where the metric was lines of code produced. They would make fun of the way I'd walk away and then come back with a notebook full a few days later, spend a day programming. Oddly, my "software" was what sold the product.
Since when did most hiring practises make sense? And since when did anyone "in charge" care about software quality? Quality doesn't sell, features sell. Rather, poor quality sells more Professional Services and Support contracts, so perhaps there is a reason... just ask JDE.
In short the benefits are for the admins (no, not the idiot IT guys who manage to correctly install Win2k at least 80% of the time)
The benefits are found in the scriptable administration. Task scheduling from script works correctly. The funky WMI to SNMP to Perfmon counter crap is gone providing scriptable interfaces via WMI to standard and preformatted counters. The holes in ADSI administration if IIS are fixed. Add to that a journaling filesystem with the ability to do point in time recovery over the network (what, didn't the article mention a flavor of journaled network file system?)
Oh, what, you didn't even know they existed. You'd be really amazed at what a real admin can do with Win2k and not Win2k3.
But most don't look, they are too busy trying to get their new open source browser to run correctly on the latest patched up version of their open source os of choice.
I agree with premise of the article, but not the content.
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Chris;
Does FF worry that an unscrupulous add-on developer could produce what could be a click-fraud capable bot net hidden in an add-on that could be promoted and distributed by FF team? What steps are taken to prevent it given the add-ons are no signed or hosted by FF?
Thanks
Paul
I've worked in companies where the metric was lines of code produced. They would make fun of the way I'd walk away and then come back with a notebook full a few days later, spend a day programming. Oddly, my "software" was what sold the product. Since when did most hiring practises make sense? And since when did anyone "in charge" care about software quality? Quality doesn't sell, features sell. Rather, poor quality sells more Professional Services and Support contracts, so perhaps there is a reason... just ask JDE.
In short the benefits are for the admins (no, not the idiot IT guys who manage to correctly install Win2k at least 80% of the time) The benefits are found in the scriptable administration. Task scheduling from script works correctly. The funky WMI to SNMP to Perfmon counter crap is gone providing scriptable interfaces via WMI to standard and preformatted counters. The holes in ADSI administration if IIS are fixed. Add to that a journaling filesystem with the ability to do point in time recovery over the network (what, didn't the article mention a flavor of journaled network file system?) Oh, what, you didn't even know they existed. You'd be really amazed at what a real admin can do with Win2k and not Win2k3. But most don't look, they are too busy trying to get their new open source browser to run correctly on the latest patched up version of their open source os of choice. I agree with premise of the article, but not the content.