Open Source Security, Part 1: Securing Credibility

"Open source applications have come into their own. For some time, open source programmers held much the same reputation as shareware authors. They were little more than experimenters and programming geeks who chose the alternate code-writing route because they could not or did not want to compete in the real software industry of commercial programming.

"Now many software developers rely on open source code either in whole or in part. A very workable business model has developed around the concept of building programs around shared or publicly available code..."

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