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Glibc change exposing bugsGlibc change exposing bugsPosted Nov 11, 2010 18:27 UTC (Thu) by donwaugaman (subscriber, #4214)In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by nye Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs
> This is just yet another case where open source software chooses politics over technical excellence, which is sad but entirely unsurprising.
Oddly enough, I would consider "technical excellence" to mean fixing bugs in software that has them, in this case the Adobe Flash player, whereas "politics" means allowing poorly-written precedent to trump (and in this case penalize) better performance for programs written with an eye to the standard.
It's a shame there's no way to get Adobe to do an 's/memcpy/memmove/' on their codebase. But the fact that they won't let others do it has more to do with their politics (and opposition to software freedom) than about technical excellence.
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