IE, Firefox Spoofable, Again

Yahoo News ^ | 21 June 2005 | Unknown

[Bush2000]

Fire fox has very few core developers when compared to ie

How many developers are on Firefox versus IE?

[N3WBI3]

Vladmir Vukicevic, Michael Connor, David Hyatt, Brian Ryner, Blake Ross, Ben Matthew Goodger

These are the guys who write firefox, and these guys have jobs outside of FF.

Do you think MS puts less man hours into ie?

So I ask again if this indicates that FireFox and Ie are just as vulnerable is it not safe to an opensource project consisting a a relatively small number (smaller than most IT departments) can make a product just as good as Microsoft's?

[Bush2000]

These are the guys who write firefox, and these guys have jobs outside of FF.

Reference?

[Bush2000]

And, again, how many developers are working on IE? How about a reference rather than some guess you pulled out of your arse?

[N3WBI3]

http://www.mozilla.org/owners.html

[N3WBI3]

Stop trying to get off of the topic...

Are you saying in post 30 that GPL Firefox is as good as ie and vise-cersa..

[Bush2000]

Nice try. But the "Owners" aren't the only ones working on the code. Again, how many developers are working on IE? You made the comparison, so let's see your reference for the number of devs working on IE.

[N3WBI3]

Does your comment in 30 mean the the OSS voulenteer project FireFox is of the same or comparable quality to Microsoft internet explorer...

[Bush2000]

FireFox is subject to the same engineering problems as IE. I would expect the defect rates to be practically the same. If you've studied software engineering, you know this to be true. There's nothing magical about FireFox developers or their methodology. In the end, their defect rate per KLOC will be no better or worse than IE's.

BTW, you do realize that FireFox incorporates the work of numerous other projects (ie. Gecko, etc), right? So, in fact, the number of developers, testers, designers, and other folks working on the code that FireFox needs to execute is actually far greater than you've specified. I'm letting that slide for the moment because you've consistently failed to identify how many developers et al are working on IE. I'm still waiting for a response.

[N3WBI3]

So you are saying that firefox is of equivelant quality to ie... thank you..

[Bush2000]

So how many IE developers are there? You're the one that claimed that FireFox has fewer developers. I'm just waiting for proof.

[Feiny]

pinging my inner geek for later