Re: OpenSSL development (Heartbleed)

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:31:39 +0200, Alan Browne  
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> a écrit:

>
> Good article in the NYT:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/technology/heartbleed-highlights-a-contradiction-in-the-web.html?ref=business
>

I surely gonna be blamed for saying this, however what can be noted here,  
is that a [political] movement which is always shouting at commercial  
companies is at the same time always expecting funds from them. How can  
you one be serious expecting the end of something while organizing a  
dependency on this thing? Also, and that's not a surprise, nothing is  
expected from “ordinary users”, who do benefit as much from  
unsupported/unpaid jobs as commercial companies do.

People should stop believing in miracles and magic formulas and become  
responsible (all the people, not just the commercial companies as a well  
know political movement suggest).

There is nothing one can get for strictly nothing (for a little fee may be  
practical, but not for strictly nothing), even with software (which is not  
just a matter of copying files as a well known movement wants to make  
people believe). I hope someone will be able to bring back basic economic  
principles in this area some day in the future.


-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University