<div dir="ltr">Python and Go are pretty popular at the moment.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 May 2014 18:04, Alan Secker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alansecker0@gmail.com" target="_blank">alansecker0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 14/05/14 16:38, Alain Williams wrote:<br>
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:21:16PM +0100, M Fernandes wrote:<br>
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I think that the Heartbleed bug *has* set back the perception of quality<br>
within the business world. As has been pointed out before by some of you,<br>
Linux is everywhere, but, I do think that it has failed to break into the<br>
Business world (front-end, not back-end where ordinary users don't touch it<br>
and become familiar with it) because there isn't enough leadership. Adrian<br>
Bridgwater makes a good point in his latest blog about fellow developers<br>
needing to concentrate on their end-users, rather than fellow developers;<br>
the defence Adrian highlights is symptomatic of that attitude I think.<br>
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<a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2014/04/why-heartbleed-did-not-harm-open-source.html" target="_blank">http://www.computerweekly.com/<u></u>blogs/open-source-insider/<u></u>2014/04/why-heartbleed-did-<u></u>not-harm-open-source.html</a><br>
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See below, basically they find that bug density is less in OSS than proprietary<br>
(0.59 vs 0.72) - not a big difference.<br>
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<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/coverity-finds-open-source-software-quality-better-than-proprietary-code-7000028514/" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/coverity-<u></u>finds-open-source-software-<u></u>quality-better-than-<u></u>proprietary-code-7000028514/</a><br>
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Now, contrast that with Jessica McKellar; she shows leadership which<br>
others need to reflect. I can't help feeling that Python is in safe hands<br>
with her.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1a4Jbjc-vU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<u></u>v=d1a4Jbjc-vU</a><br>
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35 minutes ... too long to listen to today.<br>
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What I think would really help would be if, somehow, we could pursuade all the<br>
businesses that use OSS to contribute to a bug squashing fund. I am not quite<br>
sure how we could manage that, but it would help. The trouble is that pursuading<br>
a company to donate even 1% of what they save would prob be quite a hard sell.<br>
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Comments ?<br>
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I found it gruelling and learned very little, even though starting from the NIL level. Oddly enough I had lunch with an old friend today and a former developer. He was urging me to look at Python. I might.<div class="HOEnZb">
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