The Omni Group

If the “Month of Apple Bugs”  project had given us advance notice of the security issue, we would have posted a fix sooner; as it was, they sent us notice at 11:15am and (as you can see) we posted this fixed release a few hours later.

We're not proud to have had a vulnerability in the first place, naturally, but we are proud of our response time!  (Now I guess we'll see how quickly they respond to our fix, updating their workaround section to point people at our fixed release.)

Thanks for the fix. You are being very polite about this. Sure the bug might be a little embarrassing but the “Summary"on the MOAB page was an unnecessary jab at you. Quoting your own promo materials was childish at best. They keep trying to sound reasonable but they keep ending up seeming petty.

I keep wondering what happens if these genius' announce a bug tomorrow and some hacker immediately puts it in the wild and I have my entire business crippled for a period of time? How would that be a service to me? You can bet that a bunch of attorneys would be suing the pants off of them. I think they're taking on a boat load of potential liability they probably can't cover financially.

This is irresponsible because it could severely effect (can you say legal damages) innocent users. If they want to have a pi55ing match with Apple and developers please play the game in their own backyard. Quit risking the people can't do anything about it. Users. This is the height of geek arrogance.

Andrew I would hope Omni group stays how it is and Omniweb keeps to be a commercial browser. You don't get same treatment from Apple over $140 OS do you?

Would you want Graphic Converter to become property of Adobe? Where would be 100+ bugfix, new feature releases?

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