The Heartbleed vulnerability in the OpenSSL project and ShellShock in the Bash shell undermined the confidence many had in a core premise of the open source movement.
Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, addressed the issue head-on during last week’s Linux Collaboration Summit.
“In open source, we put our laundry out to air in the front yard,” Zemlin said.
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