Comment 19 for bug 90378

You are right that the wget comparison was not proper, but actually my point was: there is no such thing as right/wrong behaviour, because it all depends on what the user wants to do with the file, which we don't know. So I am not talking about bugs here, just about features.

An OpenOffice developer could reasonably argue that OpenOffice documents that have only read permissions should not be editable by default. We could probably find a use-case scenario where that makes sense and would save someone from wasting time editing a file he would never be able to modify. I would not say such a behaviour is a bug, it is just a design decision.

The key question here is which decision is less annoying for your users.

You decide that you rather go for the read-only option. That is fine, it sure makes sense. But the fact is that the consequences for your users are unavoidable. Users don't file bugs nor try to change developers' minds, they just switch applications. They won't care whether FFox3 is doing "the right thing" or not, they will just switch to FFox2, Opera, Safari or whatever if that makes their life easier.

I would not say Opera or Safari are buggy if they save temporary files with write permissions. They just made a different design decision.