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Counterexample, and the reason why there is so much emphasis on 'software bills of materials' and similar stuff recently: Log4j. Fully open-source, packaged by
by PreInternet01 2y ago
Counterexample, and the reason why there is so much emphasis on 'software bills of materials' and similar stuff recently: Log4j.
Fully open-source, packaged by many, many open-source (and closed-source) vendors. Had a widely-publicized series of terrible bugs which caused billions of actual losses, as in: "we had to pay to get this remediated and/or had to shut stuff down for a while, and that made us look bad, without anyone to sue."
Reducing that to "let's get rid of insecure, proprietary software" is a take, but not necessarily an accurate or helpful one...
- notarobot123 2y agoIf the buck stops with the government, doesn't that mean a corresponding government investment into the security and robustness of open source projects? I think the second-order effects are precisely why this is interesting.