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Old February 13th 04, 02:36 AM
Bob Noel
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In article ne.com,
Andrew Gideon wrote:

ET wrote:

Of course we all know that if, say Netscape was used by 90%+ of all the
users out there, all the security explotes/viruses etc would be written
for those applications....


Presuming that Netscape (or whomever) didn't break some basic principles
of
software engineering (ie. shoving a widely diverse set of features into a
single monolithic component), it's a good bet that there'd be fewer bugs
and that those would be more quickly fixed.

~200 days for the fix for the ASN.1 issue? That may be a new record.


didn't you hear? ms claims the bug isn't the problem, the
patch is the problem.

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Bob Noel