Lab Notes

Fred Langa opines in InformationWeek on security vulnerabilities in Firefox. In comparison to Internet Explorer, he writes, Firefox has recently been affected by more security exploits. An article on MozillaNews is a rebuttal which downplays the vulnerabillities (the first comment on the article is "Langa == Pwned").

What does it all mean? Even vaunted open source software has bugs. The original article makes this point, and the rebuttal acknowledges it. When it turns out that your software has bugs (and it does!) the correct response is not say "oh yeah? well our competitor has more bugs!". You need to acknowledge the bugs and fix them, something that both Microsoft (in recent years, at least) and the Firefox developers have been very good at.