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well, you still have a 'tragedy of the commons' situation if say 10,000 users are all counting on at least 1 user to inspect the source - but with no commercial
by Pokepokalypse 6y ago
well, you still have a 'tragedy of the commons' situation if say 10,000 users are all counting on at least 1 user to inspect the source - but with no commercial incentive to do so, nobody does.
How does a user of open source ever know or measure exactly how well the source code has been scrutinized?
- joe_the_user 6y agoI'm getting this "open source doesn't guaranteed there's no problem" claim. And I'd agree open source doesn't guarantee there's no problem. But it seems clear that routes which have allowed malware to be pushed automatically are fundamental, guarantee problems and malware in source code is a potential problem with an obvious answer.