Think about another thing. Geniuses are extremely rare these days, and I have doubts that there is absolutely nothing in the code left "for historical reasons", or as a drop-in replacement for code you do not wish to go open source. The history would at least explain the things if one runs into a bug because of this replacement; moreover, there are chances that such kluges will be improved, if one knows what they are for.
...Selling loads of such images as M$ Office clipart thingy.
Not that Al Qaeda likes standard clip arts in their Office documents, typical lame webdev working for some North Korean government organization would just love to use them, and their sites indeed prove that.
Now what if the US wouldn't get exact coordinates of Osama, but some tasty details of NK's nuclear programme?
> As opposed to an open source zlib exploit sitting on the cookers for over 2 years and not being addressed?
Dya know numbers? It's 2 years. Two. And WMF hole is there for at least some 15 years. Seven times that and one. Now grow some clue: zlib developers are not paid for making damn thing secure, or work at all (and the warranties are rightly disclaimed, because you don't give a damn cent for it), while M$ monkeys actually are paid for that. Still, they wait for 15 years, just to screw up more pompously.
If this is not intentional, my friend, then this is called `incompetence'. Now that Free Software developers mostly give the stuff free of charge, their incompetence, if there's any, has an excuse. As for M$, there's no damn excuse, whether they did it intentionally or not.
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Think about another thing. Geniuses are extremely rare these days, and I have doubts that there is absolutely nothing in the code left "for historical reasons", or as a drop-in replacement for code you do not wish to go open source. The history would at least explain the things if one runs into a bug because of this replacement; moreover, there are chances that such kluges will be improved, if one knows what they are for.
Not that Al Qaeda likes standard clip arts in their Office documents, typical lame webdev working for some North Korean government organization would just love to use them, and their sites indeed prove that.
Now what if the US wouldn't get exact coordinates of Osama, but some tasty details of NK's nuclear programme?
> As opposed to an open source zlib exploit sitting on the cookers for over 2 years and not being addressed?
Dya know numbers? It's 2 years. Two. And WMF hole is there for at least some 15 years. Seven times that and one. Now grow some clue: zlib developers are not paid for making damn thing secure, or work at all (and the warranties are rightly disclaimed, because you don't give a damn cent for it), while M$ monkeys actually are paid for that. Still, they wait for 15 years, just to screw up more pompously.
If this is not intentional, my friend, then this is called `incompetence'. Now that Free Software developers mostly give the stuff free of charge, their incompetence, if there's any, has an excuse. As for M$, there's no damn excuse, whether they did it intentionally or not.
Man, that was really funny!