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The 2017 Pwnie winner for lamest vendor response goes to Lennart Poettering for systemd. According to CSO which has reported on it, the Pwnie winners which were announced a few days ago, the summary for Lennart and systemd reads as follows:
The most spectacular mishandling of a security vulnerability by a vendor ended up winning a Pwnie for Lennart Poettering due to SystemD bugs 5998, 6225, 6214, 5144, 6237. The nomination reads: "Where you are dereferencing null pointers, or writing out of bounds, or not supporting fully qualified domain names, or giving root privileges to any user whose name begins with a number, there's no chance that the CVE number will referenced in either the change log or the commit message. But CVEs aren't really our currency any more, and only the lamest of vendors gets a Pwnie!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @07:53PM
If I was in charge of linux (whatever that means) I would dump my spare resource into fixing open office
If that means that you would make it 100.00 percent compatible with M$Orifice, it's important to note that M$Orifice isn't even compatible M$Orifice.
If you aren't using THE SAME VERSION of M$'s stuff as the guy who created the document, there can be differences in rendering.
Hell, if you connect a different printer to your box than that of the originator, there can be differences in rendering.
...and I still don't understand why people distribute documents to be *read* in an *editable* format.
...and a PROPRIETARY format at that.
...and, if you actually do need to -collaborate- on the -creation- of documents, the online things seem much more universal.
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