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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by scarface74 on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:32PM (#14027375)
In theory yes, but just to take one well known example, the HeartBleed SSL bug was introduced in 2012 but wasn't found until 2014.
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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by throwaway2048 on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:15PM (#14028440)
At least it can be patched, if the equivilent bug occured in a closed source arm SoC driver, it would NEVER be patched.
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Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by eridius on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:46PM (#14038699)
Why wouldn't it be? If a vendor doesn't patch their drivers to fix security issues, people will stop using their products.
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