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number_one
join:2001-11-30
Midlothian, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to Matt9
Re: Fast!!
WTF? You are obviously not a programmer. Anyone with reason would understand that you can't catch every bug that a program will have before it is released. Chances are that there are a few bugs out there in widely used software that will never even be discovered at all.
If people spent too much time testing then we would never get software to use or new features added period. There has to be a balance between testing and a release schedule. It would not be "professional" to never release software because you are paranoid that there will be flaws in it (That would just be plain stupid). Ultimately your end users are the final test phase, and there will always be bugs to fix.
And after the software IS released, you don't have the option of living in a fantasy world where you can tell your users to not use your software until you can release a permanent fix. The professional thing to do is to release a temporary fix with which users can protect themselves, and then go develop a permanent bug fix that can go through all of the proper testing and reviews before being released as a patch and/or included in a future release of the software in question.
Mozilla has handled the situation quite well as many of the people in this thread have indicated. | |
SNT
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join:2002-07-17
Satellite Beach, FL
| reply to CrzyCrakr
3 problems with that EULA.
1. ...any "OS Product"
Linux is an OS Product.
2. The list of OS's does NOT include XP
and 3. By that same EULA,
"The OS Components are provided to you by Microsoft to update,
supplement, or replace existing functionality of the applicable OS Product.
In the event your OS Product is a version of Windows NT Server, the OS
Components are deemed "Client Software." Microsoft grants you a license to use
the OS Components under the terms and conditions of the OS Product EULA for
the applicable OS Product (which are hereby incorporated by reference) and the
terms and conditions set forth in this Supplemental EULA, provided that you
comply with all such terms and conditions. To the extent that any terms in
this Supplemental EULA conflict with terms in the applicable OS Product EULA,
the terms of this Supplemental EULA control solely with respect to the OS
Components."
According to this, IE is not an OS component so the paragraph you quoted doesn't apply.
In conclusion,
Linux + Wine = Free IE. | |
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