Evolution Bug-Hunt!

Matt Beale writes "Ximian is slated to release Evolution (a mail client for Gnome/Linux) by October 1st. In preperation, they are offering awards for finding bugs in Evolution! A important open project to participate in, AND i can win a palm VII, sweet!" My bug was that it kept crashing ;) October release is ambitious but very cool.

Bug.. already?

[orangesquid]

I found a bug -- it doesn't execute Outlook macro worms correctly!

This is moving backwards

[allknowing]

This will make programmers WANT to put holes in software, then they will be a part of this and somehow "FIND" these holes at a later date.

Re:release timeline

[kilgore_47]

I can't imagine they are in great shape financially.

I think their Stuffed Monkey [ximian.com] sales will keep them afloat...

Better Idea.

[PopeAlien]

..It'd be much cheaper if they just used the DMCA to arrest people that find bugs.. Hey, it works for Adobe.

Heh, I found a bug

[Anonymous Coward]

The thing looks like Outlook...

New Economy

[lavaforge]

What are the odd's that one of the Ximian programmers will get bribed into working out some sort of black market in bugs? I can just see the details now:

"Alright, buffer overflow? That's 5 percent. Poor optimization? That's ten percent. Logic errors? That'll cost ya'."

The monkeys want to be free...

[lukel]

If this giving away software and selling stuffed monkey's doesn't work out, why not give away the stuffed monkeys and sell the software?

Re:Bug.. already?

[ajs]

main () { fork(); main(); }

Not as efficient as it could be...

Let's see, to avoid exess stack extension from infinite recursion of the exponentially growing process-count:

main() { for(;;){ fork(); } }

There we have a nice little system-killer. But, it's still not quite good enough becuase of that icky branch. If we fork n times, per loop, that's 2^n more processes before they all have to branch again....

main() { for(;;){ fork(); fork(); fork(); } }

Dancing in the dark... to the radio of love! ;-)