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by kevinSuttle 2754 days ago
Can you imagine how much work and exploit patching could have been avoided in the last 30 years?
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ethbro 2754 days ago
Can you imagine how much effort and legacy code retention has gone into Microsoft maintaining backwards compatibility in their OSes?
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kevinSuttle 2753 days ago
Exactly my point. If it were open source, that work would have been fractioned.
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ethbro 2753 days ago
I think OpenSSL is indicative of the enthusiasm most unpaid contributors have for working with legacy code.
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