Re: Why open source software is more secure

["Ivan ." <ivanhec () gmail com>]

read this...... A very comprehensive analysis

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)?
Look at the Numbers!
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html

cheers
Ivan

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:41 PM, sapran <sapran () gmail com> wrote:
> The main goal of a software vendor is not to bring you a _good_
>  product, but to sell it you. That is the only truth about that. That's
>  why the product might be fully featured, nicely decorated and
>  published on time: the vendor is economically motivated to make it
>  this way. But there's no sense to make it secure and stable because
>  the only motive for this is liability which does not exist software
>  industry.
>
>  There are two ways for things to become better. The first one is fully
>  described by Bruce Schneier it his "Secrets and Lies", the top book to
>  be read by all 'connected' folks. Its increasing of liability to the
>  level of its presence in other industries, for ex. banking or plane
>  building. And there is another, more utopic, to ignore the business
>  motives during the process of software development.
>
>  It may remind you the methods of decreasing of unemployment proposed
>  by Marks: to remove market economy at all. But this is a topic to be
>  thought out I guess, so your comments are welcome.