alt Hacker NewsThat is just being pedantic. Why did they absolutely need to release this into the wild now? Why couldn’t they have waited?
“30 days should be enough time” why? Why is 30 days a magic number? Especially in open source.
Yeah it isn’t the researchers problem to tell every distributor of the kernel about the fix or verify that everyone has the fix, but fuck maybe wait until at least someone has the fix and maybe don’t drop it on a Friday. That is just malicious
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Dylan16807 • today at 12:47 PM
What number of days do you want? If nobody tells the distros it could be months or years, and while it would be nice for the researchers to monitor/notify distros it's really not their job. They might not have thought of it.
And they dropped it on a Wednesday.
They didn’t release anything into the wild. It existed. The irresponsible thing would be letting it keep existing without telling anyone.