Generalizations about whether open-source developers or closed-source source developers have more resources, or are more professional, or whatever, are silly. The two groups of developers are very large with high variance in many dimensions, and a lot of overlap. There are open-source projects with one or 2 developers, and open-source projects that are the primary focus of $100-million, thousand-employee companies. There are also closed-source commercial projects developed by teams of hundreds, and closed-source commercial projects developed by a solo programmer when he's not busy answering customers' phone calls. Lots of developers work on both open and closed-source projects at one time or another.
It's important to discuss what changes we can (and should) make to make problems like heartbleed less likely in the future, but wildly waving competing generalizations in the air doesn't help anything.
What you say is true. The argument is still useful though. There are those that follow one at the expense of the other. This is no more useful than saying the only way to develop software is agile.
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Generalizations about whether open-source developers or closed-source source developers have more resources, or are more professional, or whatever, are silly. The two groups of developers are very large with high variance in many dimensions, and a lot of overlap. There are open-source projects with one or 2 developers, and open-source projects that are the primary focus of $100-million, thousand-employee companies. There are also closed-source commercial projects developed by teams of hundreds, and closed-source commercial projects developed by a solo programmer when he's not busy answering customers' phone calls. Lots of developers work on both open and closed-source projects at one time or another.
It's important to discuss what changes we can (and should) make to make problems like heartbleed less likely in the future, but wildly waving competing generalizations in the air doesn't help anything.
What you say is true. The argument is still useful though. There are those that follow one at the expense of the other. This is no more useful than saying the only way to develop software is agile.