[Watford] What's your opinion on this blog?

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:21:16PM +0100, M Fernandes wrote:
> I think that the Heartbleed bug *has* set back the perception of quality
> within the business world.  As has been pointed out before by some of you,
> Linux is everywhere, but, I do think that it has failed to break into the
> Business world (front-end, not back-end where ordinary users don't touch it
> and become familiar with it) because there isn't enough leadership.  Adrian
> Bridgwater makes a good point in his latest blog about fellow developers
> needing to concentrate on their end-users, rather than fellow developers;
> the defence Adrian highlights is symptomatic of that attitude I think.
> 
> http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2014/04/why-heartbleed-did-not-harm-open-source.html

See below, basically they find that bug density is less in OSS than proprietary
(0.59 vs 0.72) - not a big difference.

    http://www.zdnet.com/coverity-finds-open-source-software-quality-better-than-proprietary-code-7000028514/

> Now, contrast that with Jessica McKellar; she  shows leadership which
> others need to reflect.  I can't help feeling that Python is in safe hands
> with her.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1a4Jbjc-vU

35 minutes ... too long to listen to today.


What I think would really help would be if, somehow, we could pursuade all the
businesses that use OSS to contribute to a bug squashing fund. I am not quite
sure how we could manage that, but it would help. The trouble is that pursuading
a company to donate even 1% of what they save would prob be quite a hard sell.

Comments ?

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