If software manufacturers actually cared to fix things fast, there would be no need. But as fixing bugs costs money and there is _zero_ penalty for not doing so, most do not bother unless forced to. 90 days is plenty. Things not fixed in 90 days will never be fixed, unless there is at the very least a risk of bad press.

90 days is plenty if they are actually prepared to maintain their stuff. It seems MS is not.

Indeed. But since it is FOSS, a single "true überwizard" that then submits a patch is enough for all to have a patch. In the closed-source case, some mediocre, underpaid and unmotivated corporate slave has to take an interest and manage to fix it, and that takes far longer in most cases. 90 days is completely unacceptable though.

Actually, for FOSS projects a single user that fixes it and submits a patch is enough for all users to have a patch. This is much more powerful and the reason fix-times are often measured in hours for well-done FOSS projects.

I agree. Even a second-rated software shop should have no trouble meeting that deadline. It appears that MS is still third-rate. The only thing that will help is making them fully responsible for any and all damage caused by their inaction.

We will see. While I tend to agree that a new global totalitarian catastrophe is in the works, I am not totally convinced that it will happen this time. The problem is that totalitarianism and fascism are exceedingly bad for business. They always result in an economic collapse, might just take a few decades. I have some hope that plain, old-fashioned greed may safe us this time. Wouldn't that be ironic?

I can recognize faked irony...

You forget that there are far more IT criminals than there are NSA employees....
This thing scales in several dimensions.

That is just the re-told version from those that do not get it. The actual state-of-the-art is that existence of God would be surprising and hence requires strong proof. Not even any conventional scientific proof is known at this time, hence the _conclusion_ is that there is almost certainly no God.

And fail. Sure, if there where a choice in the matter, you would be right. But there is not. Or have you just claimed that you fantasize God into existence? (Which would be halfway correct...)

This is a real surprise. I guess they did not count insecure applications....

I would decidedly not go that far. But a nice, concerted industry push to never, ever hire anybody that has been working for the NSA before or its contractors would send a clear message to bright young people looking for opportunities.

Nice propaganda attempt, shill.