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I agree with this completely. Even if Google didn't know about patch days they should have allowed them two more days to release the patch since they asked for

I agree with this completely. Even if Google didn't know about patch days they should have allowed them two more days to release the patch since they asked for it. I would even say they could have given them another week window if they needed it. Releasing an exploit into the wild when you know a patch is coming is a really awe-full thing to do. If the tables were turned I wonder what Microsoft would have done here.

Corrado 12y ago
And the next company that comes along will ask for 3 days, and then 5 days, etc. Pretty soon we're back to serious bugs not getting fixed until the vendor feels like it. The power of a set timeline is the fact that its not up to the vendor when things happen. They have proven time and again that they won't fix things until they are forced to; this forces them. It's just like being late for work. "But I was only 5 minutes late." Late is late.
- freehunter 12y ago
  The last place I worked that cared if I was 5 minutes late to work was Wal-Mart when I was a teenager.
- acqq 12y ago
  It's a kind of thinking of the bureaucrat and not of an engineer. I'm the later, and in my areas of work the tolerance of 10% is the default, the tolerance of 20% or 25% is also natural, and only something more than that is something that is even worth the words. As far as I know, some other engineering areas have even the safety factor of 2 or 3. That means, you expect the stress x, but your process has to sustain even 3 x. Edit: Zero tolerances are never a good idea. http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/school-discipline/opportunities-suspended-the-devastating-consequences-of-zero-tolerance-and-school-discipline-policies/ http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/s...