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 More options Jul 10 2005, 6:34 pm
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: dfs <d...@nospam.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:34:13 -0400
Local: Sun, Jul 10 2005 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: Open Source once again proves its superiority
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rapskat wrote:
> You all probably know about the zlib vulnerability that was recently
> discovered (again).  Well, the maintainers have yet to release an
> "official" fix for this, so does that mean that we all must be vulnerable
> and exposed with this very common library?

> Nope.  This is Open Source, remember?  Distros have fixed and released
> their own patches to the library in a matter of days, so so long as your
> system(s) are regularly updated, you are free of this issue.

> Think about it, if this were a vulnerability in Windows
> or any other commercial closed source product, then we would all be
> sitting ducks until the developers finally got up off their butts and
> fixed it.  

It's not a security issue, but on 7/27/04 (right here on cola), I asked the
Gnumeric maintainer himself to fix Gnumeric so it selects the range to be
summed when you click the sigma icon.  

Six months later - as of mid-Jan 2005 - in the stable version 1.4.2 series:
no can do.

Linux: we're too busy developing.  

Speaking of which:

developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing
developing, developing, developing

http://msmvps.com/coad/archive/2005/03/19/38999.aspx

> But, because this is Open Source Software, anyone can develop
> and release a patch for any problem, even before the developers do
> themselves!

> Man, OSS Rocks!

It's really not that exciting.  Seriously.

 
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