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This may be true, but FOSS does not magically make it happen. Many FOSS projects are led or dominated by large companies today; the development may happen in th
by alxlaz 9y ago
This may be true, but FOSS does not magically make it happen. Many FOSS projects are led or dominated by large companies today; the development may happen in the open, but it is as "corporate" as it gets, and no bullshit calling occurs (or if it does, it is quickly silenced with EWONTFIX & co.)
- hajile 9y agoThat's only partially true. When you only have one corporations interests, things get shady very quickly. When you have multiple, competing corporations, they have a vested interest in keeping their competitors honest. It would be very rare indeed to find something that every company wanted to downplay at the same time. Spectre and meltdown are a great example of this. Sure, ARM, Intel, and (to a lesser extent) AMD may want to downplay these things, but Google did not, so it became a big deal anyway.
- vog 9y ago> This may be true, but FOSS does not magically make it happen So what? Nobody said that. This is a strawman. Of course FOSS is not sufficient. Look at any homework-style GitHub repo. Nobody disputes that. All that is said is that FOSS is necessary to achieve this level of quality.