[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] IMPORTANT: vulnerability in Application Manager, please check your repositories

[From: George Farris]

On Wed, 2006-25-10 at 19:54 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> On ons, 2006-10-25 at 09:39 -0700, ext George Farris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-25-10 at 18:57 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> > > Most of the quirks have been twisted out now;
> > > it's almost functional, and our legal department is checking it at the
> > > moment.
> > 
> > This has got to be the saddest statement of our society, the fact that
> > the legal department has to check on it.  A simple alarm function, for
> > the love of god that sucks.  "Yup we want to release a new clock but we
> > have to check with the Lawyers first".  "Oh yeah we realize the clock
> > has been around for hundreds of years but.."
> 
> It's quite a lot more than that.  It's not only an alarm function, but
> an entire event management framework.

Yes I realize it is far more than an alarm function and in no way meant
to say that what you are creating is trivial, just that it's all been
done before.

Cheers