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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