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How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? 582

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @05:16PM from the or-at-least-marginally-less-unsafe dept.

jammag writes: "Heartbleed has dealt a blow to the image of free and open source software. In the self-mythology of FOSS, bugs like Heartbleed aren't supposed to happen when the source code is freely available and being worked with daily. As Eric Raymond famously said, 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.' Many users of proprietary software, tired of FOSS's continual claims of superior security, welcome the idea that Heartbleed has punctured FOSS's pretensions. But is that what has happened?"

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Re:Open source was never safer (Score:4, Funny)

by aynoknman ( 1071612 ) writes: on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @07:23PM (#46762237)

2003 called, they want your Microsoft back.
If only we could.

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