[plug] Duck and cover, new MS-Office vulnerability

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:52, intra at slowest.net wrote:
> Given some time and the popularity of OpenOffice we might be cursing
> their software in the future and applying regular security fixes.

Might be. The odds are very much in OOo's favour since *everything* in 
MS-Office is a bolt-on afterthought, whereas OOo (StarOffice in a 
previous incarnation) was planned from the ground up in a structured 
fashion.

Like Linux, I guess it helped a lot of have existing models of how and 
how not to do things.

Cheers; Leon