Jeff Atwood reminds us that Eric Raymond in “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” has been proven wrong with his “Linus’s Law”:
The idea is that open source software, by virtue of allowing anyone and everyone to view the source code, is inherently less buggy than closed source software. He dubbed this “Linus’s Law”.
The Heartbleed SSL vulnerability went unnoticed for two years. The post is worth a read if you think open source is the best answer to fix all bugs in a software.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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