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by wsx
3798 days ago
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> These hardware vendors at all levels - storage controllers, chipsets, radios, and more all have absolutely no QA on their code Hardware vendors do have QA, but it's mainly about ensuring that things work, not about trying to break them in every possible way. Safety and security seems to be notoriously hard for people who have been taught how to make things work, but not how to make them fail. |
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I know I'm repeating myself but I still think the interations between OpenWRT and the Chinese firmware vendor that was pushing Linksys firmware upstream is a valuable example of why open source is valuable in this context even if you are not intimately involved in the development, testing, or inspection of such code. Public code by its nature requires more scrutiny and its harder to get people to accept something broken or poorly written when they can see just how bad it is.
If you want to develop awful coding habits, only work with people who never develop free software. If you want to have really good habits, work in a very popular free software community, because when your work is in the open like that and everyone is a volunteer nobody is going to put up with crap.