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Story: Open-source IE patch hits trust barrier

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Yeah, these analysts just don't want to get their fingers burned if anything does go wrong.

Finding workarounds and patches for Microsoft bugs has been a staple of many a programmer's job for the best part of 20 years. That using an undocumented feature may cause you trouble when MS can be bothered to provide a fix or an upgrade is just part of the game - I can't see that many non-technical users are going to download an open-source patch in any case, so I don't see a problem at all. Caveat Emptor, obviously, but then if it's free open-source I don't suppose you're really emptoring are you?

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