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[Garrett Goebel]

From: Scott Smith [mailto:scott at roadtoad.net]
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> Let me make sure I am reading this correctly: Basically you
> are stating that we should base some arbitrary amount of
> the quality of a piece of software on how well its users
> keep up-to-date in terms of patches.....?

No. Pretty much the opposite. The quality of a release should be measured by
(among other things) the number of serious bugs that are discovered after
its release. The quality of the project by its track record for putting out
good releases.

And by release I mean the build which is publically tagged as "ready for
release"...

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> Garrett Goebel wrote:
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> > Just because someone announces a patch doesn't mean it gets
> instantly
> > applied. How many Microsoft shops have applied all the current and
> > applicable patches to all their machines? Not even
> Microsoft. What of
> > all the default installs of Sendmail from all those UNIX
> distributions
> > sitting blissfully ignored and unpatched over the years by
> neglectful
> > admins? And I wonder... if Sendmail servers are supposedly
> responsible
> > for >50% of all net email traffic... what proportion of it is spam?
> > And how does it compare to other MTA's?
> >
> > Somehow "its their own fault" doesn't quite cut the mustard ;)
> >
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