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Hanshan · 4d
Greater than zero incentive is better than zero incentive. But I don't think it's that much bigger than zero, even if the license is completely unrestricted. There is a bigger question here about h...
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Open-source strongly _disincentivizes_ testing because there is no liability. The programmers are usually anon or a bot, and they just vomit their shit up in GitHub and then make like a banana.

And nobody tests other people's OSS stuff. Even now, they're all out looking only for this one bug. Things are only caught if the code is directly integrated into your own codebase, and even then only if they test all of their libraries (LOL).
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47 · 4d
open source for the purpose of commercial use is the key incentive imo. other companies using to build have a strong incentive to review
Hanshan · 3d
Im not sure that is actually borne out by the evidence though. In this case, we have the example of several known people contacting Coinkite about their firmware for example. And all in all, OSS has a fairly good track record. Or at least, specific successful long-existing projects (ones that figure...