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It's kind of hard to rest things like a huge chunk of the world's computing infrastructure basing itself on OpenSSL long before the product put out its 1.0 rele
by mumblemumble 6y ago
It's kind of hard to rest things like a huge chunk of the world's computing infrastructure basing itself on OpenSSL long before the product put out its 1.0 release on the usual "don't trust marketing" finger-tutting. Did OpenSSL even have a marketing team back in the early 2000s?
- kerkeslager 6y agoSure, hype isn't necessarily based on marketing. That's why there's the word "often" in my previous post. I think in the case of OpenSSL, there was a huge need for what OpenSSL was doing which justified a lot of people taking a calculated risk to use it. I'll concede in that case that the risk may have actually even been justified. That same logic doesn't apply to blahblah.io's "revolutionary" 0.x.y packages on npm or pip, or the bleeding-edge SaaS of the week.