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

[Steven Acreman]

Python and Go are pretty popular at the moment.


On 14 May 2014 18:04, Alan Secker <alansecker0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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