[Info-vax] OT: Apple sits on critical Mac bug for 7 months (and counting)

[Neil Rieck]

On Jan 29, 5:58 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > Apple sits on critical Mac bug for 7 months (and counting)
>
> That is absolutely unacceptable...
>
> The Church of Apple does not tolerate the public airing of its dirty
> laundry. One cannot stain Apple's public image like that. It just isn't
> done.  To repent for your sin, you must go to an Apple place of worship
> (Apple Store) and buy at least one MacBook :-)
>
> One has to wonder if the researchers used the correct method to submit
> their bug report. But either way, that doesn't make Apple look good.
>
> I can understand HP not haveing money/resources to fix serious flaws in
> POP/IMAP/XDM for VMS, it isn't their core product.
>
> But for Apple, they send out new patches almost weekly, so there is no
> excuse for not fixing such an apparently easy bug.

It depends. Is Apple totally in control of the source code for their
OS? IIRC, it was based on the Mach kernel from Carnegie-Mellon. To
compare with with HP, HP uses open source Apache to produce SWS. What
would happen if someone would discover a major problem with Apache?
Well, HP would either:
1) produce a fix for their own release
2) contribute a fix to the next release of Apache
3) or both 1 & 2 because they (HP) would wait too long for their
actions in choice 2 to percolate down.
Getting back to Apple, does anyone know how/where they get their code?

NSR