full-disclosure - Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0100
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: Full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:38:34 EST, James Matthews said:
>
>> Why doesn't microsoft throw some of it's weight behind Mozilla and ditch IE
>> forever. It doesn't suit their image.
>
> Unfortunately, the PR doesn't work that way.  Do you really want to be buying
> an entire operating system from somebody who just admitted they can't even
> produce a workable browser with all their resources?
>
> (Note this works differently in the Linux world, where the kernel crew doesn't
> even pretend to write browsers, and the Firefox crew *just* does browsers, and
> somebody else *just* does OpenOffice, and distros (for the most part) just worry
> about integration issues, and everybody only claims to do their little part
> well)

Seriously.  I mean, just look at Linux, Firefox, and OpenOffice.
Pristine code, not a single security vulnerability between them :)

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