[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 124, Issue 11

[Tony Estep]

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> ...On 8/19/2014 1:02 AM, Andrew White wrote:
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>> With enough eye balls looking at the code all bugs are shallow....
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Everybody who reads the news knows that the most serious Internet security
bug of all time, the "Heartbeat bug," was in a piece of open-source
software that had been used for a decade, and looked at and used by
thousands of Web developers.

The users that weren't affected were those heavy-duty software companies
who developed their own in-house security layers, and kept the code to
themselves.

Many software developers have found that it is to their economic advantage
to make at least part of their code open-source, and many others have found
it to their advantage to make their code proprietary. The choice depends on
the developer's marketing plan, the target audience, and the other
surrounding economic conditions. In Elecraft's case, making any code
open-source makes zero sense, economic or otherwise.

The quality of any code is determined by the skill of those working on it,
not by whether you can find it on Github.

Tony KT0NY