At 02:12 PM 6/16/04 -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote: >Thor Lancelot Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Have neither of you considered why people write open-sourced code? Reputation, to learn, utility, etc. With the exception of perhaps security-focussed code, no one gains much reputation by *finding* bugs whereas contributing a package of functionality (buggy or not) wins community points. In short, aside from common cognitive foibles which you're discussing, the open-source reward system doesn't make heroes of bug finders. Eg I might know the name of the author of eg sendmail, but do you know the names of anyone who found a security bug in that code? (Not including people you knew before). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]