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>The open source community has a long way to go if it's going to clearly demonstrate that it's model is advantageous Some in the open source community flout th
by davexunit 11y ago
>The open source community has a long way to go if it's going to clearly demonstrate that it's model is advantageous
Some in the open source community flout the "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" argument, but in the free software community we do not assert this. Part of security is transparency, and this means being able to read the source code, freedom 1. Free software is a prerequisite for secure software that a user can trust.
- tptacek 11y agoI understand and respect the tenets of your religion, but I do not practice that religion myself.
- belorn 11y agoBe civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. - Hacker News Guidelines If you are opening up for incivility, I doubt there is an end what people will start calling each other. Do you really want to go down that road?
- davexunit 11y agoThanks for being condescending.
- tptacek 11y agoIf it helps you understand where I'm coming from, while I do in fact admire the FSF's ethic of free software, more so than I admire "open source", as a practitioner in the field of cryptographic security I find FSF-style preaching about security to be intensely condescending as well. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=11455588 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=11455588
- davexunit 11y agoThe linked comment has NOTHING to do with what the FSF has said about software security.