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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:42:23 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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On 19/04/14 18:06, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2014.04.19, 11:36 , Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
>> In between, reports of booing, bemoaning, and demanding; journalist
>> tries to establish a scape goat (OpenSSL users don't fund!).
>> No proof, no clear indication of causation, but alluding in style.
>> By saying that OpenSSL is not a well funded project, she obviously
>> tries to imply that this is (a) true in effect, and (b) that funding
>> prevents bugs. (a): most of OpenSSL does exist only after work
>> of payed employees. (b): See bugs discovered at the same time in well
>> funded MS Word and MS Outlook projects, of similar reach.
>
> And how does that make you feel?

Depends. Sometimes I feel that industry should rid itself of
its dependence on so few suppliers of an ever increasing number
of "industry standards",  open source or not, and on
PR style people. Some things are just too important for healthy
living, both at work and at home. So important that these things
should be exempt from being nothing but a business opportunity.

> Please see this as well:
>
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/openssl-and-linux-a-tale-of-two-open-source-projects/?action=click&contentCollection=Technology&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Same thing...