PJ Wall wrote:
> 1. its better that OSS stays "by geeks, for geeks" and does not grow
> its current market share... OSS products like Firefox are in my
> opinion, genuinely better and more stable that comparable closed
> source proprietary equivalents. However, the more popular these OS
> products become, the more people will be interested in seeking out
> security weaknesses. Firefox is currently relitavely spyware and
> pop-up free, but this will change once it gains market share.
And this is a problem why? Firefox is in active development so any vulns
which are discovered will most likely be quashed fairly quickly. In
fact, people are actively encouraged to seek out and report
vulnerabilities... One I'm hoping gets seen to soon is the popup
workaround that some fabbotastic, trustworthy sites are using - I'm so
grateful to advertisers for circumventing my methods for blocking their
intrusive garbage!
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