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Story: Firefox: The ultimate test for open source?
Posted by: A Flones (Tuesday 11 January 2005, 7:22 PM)
Only a ignorant dolt (or a troll) would be against publicly reporting software bugs or security problems
The story here is not the reporting of the opinions of a misguided fringe, but the reporting of how the opinions of authoritative free software developers differ from proprietary developers on the matter. The former are for free and open disclosure; the latter have a history of being against disclosure. The *big* story is how these opinions and policies play out in practice.
eWeek missed the mark entirely.
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Story: Firefox: The ultimate test for open source?
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Well said. I do feel quite guilty about posting my... NJ -
Quite right. However, being a user of Firefox isn'... Anonymous
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While I agree with the premise of this article as... William Gates
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Only a ignorant dolt (or a troll) would be against... A Flones -
If anyone reading this switched to Firefox only on... Anonymous
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Good Point. The GNU/Linux platform, even in it's... Charles Tryon
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This article is typical media-hype to genera... Peter Davie
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I do like firefox I have been using an alternate b... Leon Sammual Davidson
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I installed Firefox a couple of weeks ago as a rep... Dave Rohde
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It's free so quit your whining. They owe you nothi... Sam Hahn
