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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?

Please see this as well:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/openssl-and-linux-a-tale-of-two-=
open-source-projects/?action=3Dclick&contentCollection=3DTechnology&modul=
e=3DRelatedCoverage&region=3DMarginalia&pgtype=3Darticle

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"Big data can reduce anything to a single number,
  but you shouldn=92t be fooled by the appearance of exactitude."
      -Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, NYT, 2014.04.07