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Subject: Re: OpenSSL development (Heartbleed)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:00:43 +0200
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Le Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:36:17 +0200, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a =C3=A9crit:
>
> 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,

That's a well established fact in the software area, so the assumption i=
s  =

honest enough.

> 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.

Obviously, funding does not make miracles but neither free as in free=E2=
=80=91beer  =

do. However you are more likely to get people sticking to good methods, =
 =

give time and energy for this, if they get something in return.

Funding does not make people do a good job automatically, but it still  =

make it more likely to be than with the opposite.


-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity