Heartbleed: Is the open source development model broken? (Debate) | Linux Today

Heartbleed: Is the open source development model broken? (Debate)

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 13, 2014

Make no mistake about it. Heartbleed was open-source’s worst hour. But, it wasn’t a failure of open source per se. It was a failure to actually practice open-source development methods. Ed Bott debates Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Bring pop-corn!

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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