Same could be said about windows

Story: The case for educating judges on open source licensingTotal Replies: 1
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maxxedout

Feb 04, 2016
10:38 AM EDT 		>>anonymous people on the Internet design it, and 'holes' are not fixed by vendor updates."

Windows is developed by anonymous people and 'holes' are not fixed by vendor updates
dotmatrix

Feb 04, 2016
11:30 AM EDT 		Actually, the case documentation does seem to be a large FUD problem...

The linked article doesn't really include complete context:

From Legal Opinion: 21ST CAPITAL CORPORATION V. ONODI TOOLING & ENGINEERING COMPANY wrote: David Clark also testified that he wrote the software, including code, and managed the website for 21st Capital. Postgre S.Q.L. is a database system that allows companies

A problem Chenier saw was that 21st Capital used “open source code” and made changes, sometimes on a weekly basis, to its program code without testing or validating those changes. A large percentage of the open source code was “grabbed from several different sources on the internet” and only a small percentage of the code was custom. Open source code is problematic because anonymous people on the internet design it, and “holes” are not fixed by vendor updates. Notifications that there are issues with the code may not go out.


The software writer did a bang up job blaming his 1337 hax0r programming faux pas on FOSS and Postgresql. And the court happily published it...

http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/B252080.PDF

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