On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 3:48 PM Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > > If free/oss projects like Debian want to provide software with those > > positive characteristics to their users, those projects must have in > > place some level of oversight over what the persons who actually write > > the software actually do, or don't do in the case of failing to fix > > bugs that could easily be fixed, so that the goals of quality, useful, > > safe, and secure software are reached. > > That's why I like Free Software: all of this is done out in the open, > making oversight particularly easy. > > For proprietary code you generally simply can't do that at all because > it's all kept secret.
I thought this argument was over many years ago. This is an old book, but it seems people need to read it today: https://www.amazon.com/Cathedral-Bazaar-Musings-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/0596001088
