I agree that a large number of superficial readings won't find issues
that fewer, more careful investigations could - whether "free as in
freedom" software is more reliable, efficient and capable than
proprietary software (or visa versa) is an unanswered question.
And theFSF does seem to hold
On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:25:34 -0700
Kent Borg wrote:
> It might actually *be* true, were the precondition true, if there
> actually *were* there a lot of eyes. But there aren't.
Even if there were, they're only going to spot the low-hanging fruit
because they either don't know what they are look
On 7/25/24 14:13, Rich Pieri wrote:
First, the aphorism that, "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow," is
demonstrably wrong.
It might actually *be* true, were the precondition true, if there
actually *were* there a lot of eyes. But there aren't.
It turns out reading source code is not a ma
On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:37:27 -0400
Ian Kelling wrote:
> FSF wrote a blog about this which I really enjoyed
> https://www.fsf.org/news/lets-not-celebrate-crowdstrike-lets-point-to-a-better-way
Just two points about that, and I acknowledge my anti-FSF knee-jerk
reaction here.
First, the aphorism
> Kent Borg said on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:39:33 -0700
>
>>On 7/24/24 10:06, Daniel M Gessel wrote:
>>> The failure does seem incompetent to the point of negligence and I
>>> wouldn't be surprised to see it tested in court: big companies lost
>>> large amounts of money; lawsuits may start happening so
