I couldn't agree more. In fact I find it kind of amazing that open source projects do as well as they do with mostly volunteer efforts. I think where it breaks down is when things become overly complex which is what the Quinn Norton article points out. Even those trying their best to write good bug free software find themselves having to interface with lots of crap thus complicating testing. Complexity becomes a drag on the volunteer effort and eventually reduces the number of eyes scrutinizing the stuff as in the OpenSSL case.
Welcome to the world of 0day attacks. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mel Walters" <melwalt...@telus.net> To: clug-talk@clug.ca Sent: Thursday, 29 May, 2014 11:27:47 AM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Everything is broken I found Bob Beck's talk kind of encouraging. Not only because he is willing to admit things are wrong, BUT because Bob and people like him are doing something about it. Is that not what our community is supposed to be all about? Making things better, not just complaining? Vive le Libressl http://www.libressl.org/ Mel On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 13:17 -0600, Greg King wrote: > There was an op-ed piece in the Calgary Herald recently about how most stuff > on the internet is held together by gum and bailing twine. The op-ed writer > was basing his comments on an article by journalist/ blogger Quinn Norton so > I went and read the original article on a website for writers called the > Medium. It's an interesting rant on what is going on in our connect world > today. You can find it here https://medium.com/@quinnnorton > > After Bob Becks talk about the issues with OpenSSL last night, this will not > make you feel any better about the rest of the software we use on a daily > basis (but most of us know some of this already). > > Enjoy (or NOT)! > > Greg _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
