* 2022-08-19 17:06:38-0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: >> Maybe because developers/maintainers are not paid by the hour, but >> mere volunteers, don't you think? > > So that means "free" software written and maintained by volunteers > will never be as stable and secure as software that is written by > people who are paid by the hour. That is, Debian software can *never* > be as stable and secure as software that is written and maintained by > people who are paid by the hour. Too much generalizing. If some piece of software has bugs and no active maintenance then that particular software may be insecure, but not the whole software category (by maintenance strategy). Almost every piece of software is maintained different way and has its own security concerns. There is no general security rule for all volunteer maintained and all paid-by-hour maintained software. Both volunteers and companies lose interest in maintaining software at some point. I don't know which strategy is generally better, but even if I knew, the knowledge wouldn't say anything about any particular piece of software. It's good to bring attention to long-ignored bugs in Debian. It can help get them fixed sooner. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462
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