[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Damien McKenna]

On May 8, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Damien McKenna wrote:
>> No matter how crappy any application is if it can
>> corrupt the OS then that is the underlying problem.
>
> I've had Firefox take down a Ubuntu machine, completely locked it up  
> and a forced reboot was required to get it working again.


And then there's the story of a Firefox translation bundling a trojan  
for free:
	http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/firefox-infects.html

I don't know at this time what license the trojan was released with,  
it may be violating the GPL :P

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