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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: polonus on October 27, 2006, 08:53:23 AM
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Hello malware fighters,
Red Hat's Cox warns about questionable security in some open source software.
Read here: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39284341,00.htm
We are not talking about the real great projects from good coders with good reviews and documentation, but some third party code (see the coding of some browser add-ons for instance).
If I launch up Firebug in Firefox I will get very different results than when I launch this inside Flock. That is not saying that FF is better coded.
Who of us when having open source software on his machine, has the urge to glance through the code, just to see how it's being done. Sloppy code that is very functional has been written by a genius, formal code that seems to make the software crash can be right out of the textbook.
polonus