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Patch flubs are rare with Open Source project, more so than their closed source counter parts.

"Despite the distributed programming model of open source projects, catastrophic errors in patches are rare. The companies and groups behind most Linux distributions extensively test software updates, said Holger Dyroff, vice president of marketing for Novell's SUSE Linux group."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/26/linux_update_shocker/

Also this was not a software screw up that created a new security hole in a system... um like Microsoft's patch.

""It was not clear how many people were affected," Matt Zimmerman, chief technology officer for Ubuntu, said in an interview with SecurityFocus. "The bug seems to be hardware specific."

Nice reach though! Now had this been something that affected all the distributions... like the IE patch did, then you would have something to gloat about. But come on now... you can do better! devil
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