Comment 186 for bug 296867

I'm feed up of people complaining about people complaining about wilful bad
security.

This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of
the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed.

A little more discussion there might have helped, but here it obviously
hasn't!

When someone gives their time and experience to improve software designs
from fatal flaws, often in the evenings with other distractions, they get
next to no gratitude and a whole heap of criticism as if their drawing
attention to the flaw is worse than the flaw itself.

Free software doesn't stop people talking about the naked emperor.

If they are not government spies and but just play at spies in their
evenings (with other distractions) then that is fine, but if they then make
a public gift of it can they really expect people to not talk about it?

They don't buy our silence with their wooden horse!

We don't use it and we warn others. We actually care about their users!

Sam
On 28 Apr 2014 18:55, "Chris Kerr" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm fed up of people complaining about developers. It's *free software*,
> and if you get anything more than you paid for then you should be
> grateful (I certainly am).
>
> This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of
> the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. When someone gives their
> best effort to produce software as a gift to the community, often
> working in spare evenings with lots of other distractions which prevent
> them giving their full focus to the task, they get next to no praise
> when it works and a whole heap of criticism when they make a tiny
> mistake. People even accuse them of deliberately inserting the mistake
> as a government spy.
>
> I'm currently writing up my PhD thesis. When I finish, I will have some
> free time while waiting for my viva voce, and would be willing to spend
> some of that time trying to fix this, as it is something I would find
> useful myself and potentially also a helpful addition to my CV. However
> there are probably plenty of people out there who would do a better job
> than I, especially since I have mainly used Fortran and Python for the
> last 4 years so my C/C++ is rather rusty.
>
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