Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Jan 2007 22:38 UTC
An attempt is being made to quickly patch flaws in Apple software that are announced by vulnerability researchers Kevin Finisterre and LMH this month. The researchers' 'Month of Apple Bugs' project, launched on Monday, promises to feature a new Apple software bug for each day in January. However, a senior open-source developer with extensive experience working for Apple says he is attempting to offer fixes for each flaw found.
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I agree you cannot call a third party application an apple issue when the application is not installed by default with the OS or is even supported by the vendor. OS X has nothing to do with VLC aside from the fact that it can run on OS X. INMHO VLC should not count against Apple, someone is reaching and this is not an Apple defense the same would be true if it was Windows or Linux again Quicktime I agree, VLC your reaching.
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I'd say it depends upon the context.
Apple bundles a lot of third party software with their operating system. I believe that that sort of thing is legitimate to report as an Apple bug, because it is part of what they are shipping as Mac OS X and it can be exploited.
But if you are talking about stuff that the end user has to install, that's crazy. Any old Joe can write software for Mac OS X, and it can be filled with bugs due to shoddy work or inexperience. What does Apple have to do with that?
I used to think that this would be a useful exercise. But having VLC as the second bug leads me to believe that they are unwilling to do their homework (homework that they assigned to themselves) and are just looking for filler.