Comment Wrong on two counts (Score 1) 174
The beta was released in 1989. 25 years ago.
Which makes a perfect farce of the notion that many eyes make all bugs shallow.
1) We don't know when the bug was introduced, although it's clear that it was quite some time ago.
2) I defy you to name any version of any reasonably complex software that is guaranteed to be free of exploitable bugs. It's been shown by people much smarter than me that it's mathmatically impossible to do so. (Just one example thread discussing the problem.)
The difference is that with OSS, they all will eventually get found and fixed. The same can't be said of closed source software.