“Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told
a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source
developers should be liable for the security of the code they
write.“Cox, who is permanently employed at Red Hat, told the Lords
Science and Technology Committee inquiry into personal internet
security that both open- and closed-source software developers,
including Microsoft, have an ethical duty to make their code as
secure as possible. ‘Microsoft people have a moral duty in making
sure their operating system is fit-for-purpose,’ Cox said on
Wednesday…”