The heartbleed incident does not disprove that 'given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow'. Instead, it proves the importance of Open Source software.
It also illustrates the disadvantage of not having an enormous marketing machine that can spin such incidents. Instead of calling this bug 'catastrophic', we should have called this 'an opportunity to further improve server security'...
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The heartbleed incident does not disprove that 'given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow'. Instead, it proves the importance of Open Source software. It also illustrates the disadvantage of not having an enormous marketing machine that can spin such incidents. Instead of calling this bug 'catastrophic', we should have called this 'an opportunity to further improve server security'...
as there is no quality control in most cases
Peer review is the quality control...
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