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This would be more in the context of FOSS, so the economics are certainly different. I am not sure qualified eyeballs are expensive in this context.
by ErikAugust 6y ago
This would be more in the context of FOSS, so the economics are certainly different. I am not sure qualified eyeballs are expensive in this context.
- jolux 6y agoLook at OpenSSL and Heartbleed. Nobody found it and it ended up being a catastrophe. It has since seen major industry investment. The problems have been mostly alleviated.
- 77pt77 6y agoAnyone worth their salt that spent longer than 10 minutes lokoing at openssl's source code knew that it was riddled with problems. Regardless of that none of the many billion dollar companies that relied on it invested anything into improving it.