cork1958
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4 edits | Fast!!
Temporary, but quick!! Have to give the folks at mozilla credit for that!! 
Way to go!! 
And MS has cancelled next Tuesdays patch day to fix an issue that has been know for awhile now! Go figure. |
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shrtckt1
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1 edit | They have to be. This is part of their QOS strategy to sink IE for good. I think they are doing a great job (they got my business). |
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Syan48306
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clubs:   | After seeing how mozilla does things...you start to wonder if IE is a live program and if they have people wokring on it...lol go firefox |
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insomniac84
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said by cork1958  :Temporary, but quick!! Have to give the folks at mozilla credit for that!! Way to go!! Did you even read the story?
You praise a company for sweeping the problem under the rug. This is like disabling pictures because their is a jpeg flaw. Its sad when a company can't actually fix anything. They need to be more like microsoft and actually fix flaws. |
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KrK
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| said by insomniac84 :Did you even read the story? You praise a company for sweeping the problem under the rug. This is like disabling pictures because their is a jpeg flaw. Its sad when a company can't actually fix anything. They need to be more like microsoft and actually fix flaws. Oh, COME ON! Sweeping it under the rug? Hardly. It's called acting responsible. Given a vulnerability has been made public, and based on past history someone could release an exploit in under a week... Let me ask you which you'd prefer...
1) Realizing it might be take some time to reprogram, test for compatibility, and release a new version or patch, a company moves swiftly now to shut down or disable the flaw, until such time it is fixed. (This is what Mozilla just did)
or
2) Take as long as a few months to release a fix or version update, meanwhile leaving your users exposed, and just hoping nobody takes advantage of it.... Oh and if a big exploit then does appear, then you put out a patch AFTERWARDS shutting down or disabling the problem until you get it fixed. (This is the route MS usually has taken.)
Me, I'll take #1. You FireFox Haters will of course take #2.... and you'll praise MS for shafting you.
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Matt9
join:2004-01-29
New Bedford, MA | Can I take option 3? 3 being:
Realizing you have such a huge flaw in the first place, and not releasing your software until it's fixed.
Or is that too professional of an option for the Mozilla foundation? |
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RayW
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| said by Matt9 :Can I take option 3? 3 being: Realizing you have such a huge flaw in the first place, and not releasing your software until it's fixed. Or is that too professional of an option for the Mozilla foundation? Ummm, and you pay for many option three's with Microsoft and bash one in the free Mozilla/Firefox? I guess it is people like you that makes Bill Gates so rich that my entire worth is less than the lint in his pocket.
Yeah I know, Microsoft is so big compared to Mozilla they have an 'excuse' because of size.
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King P
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Sorry, but if that were the case then Windows shouldn't even be around...let alone IE or SQL Server or any of the other buggy and exploitable software that most people praise microsoft for creating... |
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RDSra
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No, I don't pay anything for IE. |
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wtansill
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| said by RDSra :
No, I don't pay anything for IE.
Yeah, you do. It's bundled into the cost of the OS itself. You just don't see it as a separate cost item.
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hescominsoon
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said by Matt9 :Can I take option 3? 3 being: Realizing you have such a huge flaw in the first place, and not releasing your software until it's fixed. Or is that too professional of an option for the Mozilla foundation? Ask that question of Microsoft while you're at it.
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SNT
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said by wtansill :said by RDSra :
No, I don't pay anything for IE.
Yeah, you do. It's bundled into the cost of the OS itself. You just don't see it as a separate cost item. Linux + Wine = Free IE |
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wtansill
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| said by SNT :said by wtansill :said by RDSra :
No, I don't pay anything for IE.
Yeah, you do. It's bundled into the cost of the OS itself. You just don't see it as a separate cost item. Linux + Wine = Free IE Missed that one. Still, it's the exception, but the rule.
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CrzyCrakr
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1 edit | reply to SNT
Using IE in anything other than Windows is breaking the EULA of IE. That is like saying...xbox games are free cuz you have a modded xbox and you copy games so you can play them. You are just circumventing the rule.
And to quote the EULA...
"NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY "OS PRODUCT" (MICROSOFT WINDOWS
95, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98, MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION 4.0, MICROSOFT
WINDOWS NT SERVER 4.0, MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT SERVER, ENTERPRISE EDITION 4.0 OR
MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT SERVER 4.0, TERMINAL SERVER EDITION), YOU ARE NOT
AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE
NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA."
»www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iep···ense.txt
So IE is NOT free. |
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Matt9
join:2004-01-29
New Bedford, MA
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I use Opera and Firefox as my browsers. I'm not comparing Firefox to Microsoft, Firefox is Mozilla and Microsoft is Microsoft, why compare them?
Releasing a program with such a blatant flaw is unprofessional and inexcusable no matter what company does it. Don't they test this stuff before they release it? Seems like every Firefox release there is always some major security issue they are always rushing to fix. Yeah, I know, at least they offer patches "quickly" (compared to Microsoft) and the patches work. But WHY aren't these programmers FINDING these holes BEFORE they release the product? Don't they care? Or is it "well we'll just release this and let the users find all the holes, then do damage control from there?" |
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Matt9
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| reply to hescominsoon
I don't care about Microsoft. I'm talking about Mozilla. Why do people always compare the 2 browsers when discussing flaws and how quickly they are fixed?
I'm not debating that Mozilla fixes them faster and more efficiently than Microsoft. I'm just trying to make the point that both exist and it seems that they release Firefox without really testing it. They find these flaws quickly a few days after a release -- why aren't they picked up on during TESTING and fixed BEFORE an official release? |
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bth_lonewolf
join:2005-03-28
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said by KrK :said by insomniac84 :2) Take as long as a few months to release a fix or version update, meanwhile leaving your users exposed, and just hoping nobody takes advantage of it.... Oh and if a big exploit then does appear, then you put out a patch AFTERWARDS shutting down or disabling the problem until you get it fixed. (This is the route MS usually has taken.) Me, I'll take #1. You FireFox Haters will of course take #2.... and you'll praise MS for shafting you. C'mon -- ridiculous generalizations. Microsoft last month released a fix in IE in about 24 - 48 hours after it was found. Not saying that _always_ happens, but months? Microsoft is generally a lot more responsive than you think ... if you can, give examples of this specifically instead of these generalizations? |
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RayW
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said by Matt9 : I'm not comparing Firefox to Microsoft, Firefox is Mozilla and Microsoft is Microsoft, why compare them? Because Microsoft has again started to and because they occupy the same ecological niche in the world of computing? And back in the early-mid 90's Microsoft threw a ton of resources and money to ensure that THEY would be the only browser around (my company at the time was directly affected by that)?
said by Matt9 :But WHY aren't these programmers FINDING these holes BEFORE they release the product? Don't they care? Or is it "well we'll just release this and let the users find all the holes, then do damage control from there?" Well, I can not answer that except by inference and experience. My guess would be because there is no way a small group of programmers with a limited number of systems and a finite amount of time can find all the various loopholes and still be able to release a product in a time frame somewhat less than infinity. And face it, even the best programmers and testers have blind spots in their thinking. And it may be sacrilege to the "'zilla is God" crowd, but the 'zilla team is not a large, well funded, supposedly coherent team. It is an open source cooperative effort that seems to be doing quite well despite all their handicaps.
One would assume the smaller the group and the poorer the funding, the more the problems and the slower the fixes/workarounds
I think many of the comparisons boil down to the Microsoft's historical "head in the sand until there are no other options" and the apparent fast response by the 'zilla team.
As a closing note, I had an instructer long ago that said something to the affect that it does not matter how long a piece of software has been out or how well it has been worked over, it will still be a beta until the day it ceases to be used.
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That's easy to say for someone that has probably NEVER worked with or developed software. It's not as easy as you think.
Sadly, while we wish that all software is air-tight from the day it's released, if that was the case then nothing would get released. |
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Matt9
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| These are big -- BIG flaws. Found not even a week after a release. Users, generally just browsing the web, came across them. How hard it would it be for SOFTWARE engineers to find them? I mean, really. Take a few hours of your day, browse the web. Wow...difficult, huh? Part of me wonders if Mozilla releases products with flaws just to get attention. |
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