Re:Petition to open source Flash
by 80211 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:46PM
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Nonsense! Open source things like PHP, WordPress, Apache, and Linux are attacked constantly.
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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...