Re: [Fsfe-uk] BCS on Open Source

[Jon Grant]

On 30 July 2010 10:39, Michael Dorrington <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Can open source be secure?
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> And have a read of the comments on it.

Isn't that bad an article.

"IT system support" is always paid for, regardless of the licensing
terms the software was procured under.

Commercial closed source software often has poor QA, however that may
still be better than an "open source" project with proper level of
formal QA and ticket management (like mozilla [0]), compared to an
"open source" project with a good QA process, like GCC.

Cheers, Jon

[0]: http://jguk.org/2007/09/mozilla-reply-all-bug-not-fixed-5-years.html

Cheers, Jon