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

[Alan Secker]

On 14/05/14 16:38, Alain Williams wrote:
> 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 ?
>

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.