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Originally posted by Viper:
Myth - Ohhh, MPlayer is open source!! Surely it doesn't have any flaws(*riiight*)!
Fact - All software has flaws. You will never find a perfectly coded piece of software(app/os/game, etc.). Get over it.
No one ever said MPlayer didn't have flaws. The difference with open source software versus non-open source software is that the flaws are indeed posted for everyone to see so that someone can fix it.
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If Open Source security issues were made public like MS ones are you would see at least 1 new exploit a day being mentioned.
Um, the security issues are being made public. They're available for everyone to see on the sites where the software originates, as well as the fix, not to mention most Linux sites post security advisories on software when they are discovered. Just because they're not announced on CNN or MSNBC doesn't mean they're not public.
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You would easily see 10x more security warnings for Linux than you do for Windows(on average...the 10x figure is actually a little low).
This is possible, but it's because it's always undergoing rigorous testing and even the smallest security flaw is posted for everyone to see so that it can be fixed ASAP. The mere number of security flaws doesn't tell the whole story of security of software. Whereas, we have Microsoft, who doesn't acknowledge flaws unless someone tells the media. (At least that's how I see it. Whether it's accurate or not, I couldn't say.)
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Why don't people like to mention all of the bugs in Open source stuff? The bugs exist and the security vulnerabilities are real(just like security vulnerabilities for MS products).
See above. Bugs are mentioned all over the place, and in 99.9% of the cases, the fix is mentioned along with the mention of the bug.
[ September 09, 2003: Message edited by: emh ]