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Re:Petition to open source Flash by flashman on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:59PM (#14861501)
The security issues with Flash are due to it being closed-source. Make it open-source and a lot of the problems that lead it to being EOLed will be solved.
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by 80211 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:46PM (#14862007)
Nonsense! Open source things like PHP, WordPress, Apache, and Linux are attacked constantly.
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by ebcode on Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:50AM (#14863166)
Sure, but they're also being defended constantly by armies of programmers. When a vulnerability is discovered, the four projects you mentioned are all awfully quick to issue and distribute patches.

Think about how Google pressured Microsoft to fix a vulnerability when MS was too slow to respond[1]. That's the kind of crap you see with proprietary development.

Open source is just a flat-out better method of developing software, but especially so when it comes to patching vulnerabilities.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2015/01/02/google-posts-unpatched-m...

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