[Info-vax] SAMBA and Ransomeware

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/28/2017 5:34 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> OpenSource: Mostly untested code without even the tiniest thought
> given to security, much of it written by 12 year old boys just trying
> to learn, hurled into a repository where bugs will be logged where
> the vast majority of bugs will be closed "because the version is no
> longer supported."

Your view of open source is very far from reality.

Today open source is to a very large extent a corporate thing.

The Linux kernel actually make statistics on contributions. In last
report less than 10% was from individuals and more than 90% was from
companies. And the list of companies is almost all the big companies
in IT: Intel, AMD, ARM, TI, NVidia, Qualcomm, Cisco, Huawei, Samsung,
Redhat, IBM, Oracle, Google, Facebook etc..

And the most known open source guys are very far from kids. Among
the famous/infamous: Richard Stallman is 64, Linus Torvalds is 47,
Greg Kroah-Hartman must be around 50, Ulrich Drepper is 49,
Michael Widenius is 55, Rasmus Lerdorf is 48, Guido van Rossum
is 61, Miguel de Icaza is mid 40's, Geir Magnusson must be mid 40's
and so on.

Arne