I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
Defect-free software does not exist.
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'
All software sucks.
I just became one with my browser software.