What is better for the future of OSS - having a program that is easy to use and popular that has a few flaws, or something that is flawless and rigorous but only the geeks know about and use?
I would argue that you need both. Just because a few of us geeks have some issues with it, in reality most common users don't notice them and don't care. They simply want something that is fast, easy to use, and doesn't serve lots of popups and corrupt their system. That's it. They don't care about creating unique secure processes or memory usage or some obscure flaw in the security model. In a perfect world they would care about all those issues like us geeks. I am happy with simply having so many people going out and downloading and installing it in defiance of IE and the rest of the establishment failing to do any thing about popups, browser hijacks, or security issues. That is a very good first step. We all understand that Firefox is not perfect and has its flaws. And yes, as it becomes more popular it will probably come under more and more attacks. But the fact is that it is probably the most popular OSS product out there and the public loves it. I think that far outweighs the few flaws it has. -- Brian
