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You missed this part:You missed this part:Posted Aug 18, 2004 20:31 UTC (Wed) by southey (subscriber, #9466)In reply to: Two security articles by gvy Parent article: Two security articles "... fix all problems within a fixed timescale." He just did not say what the fixed timescale was.
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Re: You missed this part Posted Aug 18, 2004 21:06 UTC (Wed) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link] > He just did not say what the fixed timescale was.Probably half a billion years ;-)
Proprietary software companies don't fix all problems Posted Aug 18, 2004 22:41 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Of course they don't, and they shouldn't. They fix problems encountered in their internal testing, and they fix problems that the customers scream about, but any program of significant size ships with known defects. This is true whether it is open source or proprietary. In the case of proprietary software, sometimes the customer must buy the new version to get a known defect corrected (especially if the fix is non-trivial), though security bugs are not treated this way by any responsible company.
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