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SV_BubbleTimetoday at 2:07 PM1 replyview on HN

The “million eyes” argument has massive exceptions, among the top of my head is OpenSSL’s HeartBleed, a critical and extremely popular security suite that had a simple overflow issue for a decade or longer.

People don’t read the source. And chief among them, statistically, is you.

Open Source is ideal but not a deal breaker.


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Toynbeeideatoday at 2:14 PM

True. And yet the possibility exists that one COULD. That's the difference.