The software industry is unique when it comes to warranties - all other industries give a warranty of their product being problem free while the software industry gives a disclaimer. Every software engineer agrees to the fact that no software is bug free but the software can definitely be close to being bug free.
The mozilla foundation on the 2nd day of August 2004 announced the ‘Security Bug Bounty Program’ according to which every security related bug would entitle the discoverer to get a $500 cash reward. Good effort to make the software close to being bug free. On the 14th of September 2004 the winners and the bugs reported by them were announced. Updates were released thus making the software free of the discovered bugs even before the crackers would take advantage of them!
Thats precisely why the open and free software are more secure and bugfree compared to the proprietary software. Did you know that even with close sourcecode the proprietary software have a higher probability of having bugs compared to the open/free software where even the crackers would have access to the source code?
More details on website of the mozilla foundation - http://www.mozilla.org/security/
I am Prasad Sunkari,
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