> everyone is all positive about "open source" until they have to dive into a few millions lines of complicated system-level C code and then...
Does anyone doubt that 99% of open source users never read a line of the source code which they are using? The point is, they have the opportunity to, and more importantly, the 1% (or whatever) with the skills and resources are able to actually do something about it.
If you don't have the ability to change or examine the source code, then there is little incentive to do any runtime analysis which might illuminate the problem.
It's a facile point.
> everyone is all positive about "open source" until they have to dive into a few millions lines of complicated system-level C code and then...
Does anyone doubt that 99% of open source users never read a line of the source code which they are using? The point is, they have the opportunity to, and more importantly, the 1% (or whatever) with the skills and resources are able to actually do something about it.
If you don't have the ability to change or examine the source code, then there is little incentive to do any runtime analysis which might illuminate the problem.