[pdimitar]

Answering to another point separately because my other comment grew large enough already:

> or else Linux would be breaking all the time, and its a solid, big and complex piece of software that works pretty well because there's a lot of economical incentives to keep it going.

It is solid... as far as we know. Truth is, nobody is fuzzing the Linux kernel 24/7 except maybe the worst possible actors like national intelligence agencies or malevolent hacking groups -- and they of course would never share and help fix a zero-day because it can help them make money by exfiltrating sensitive information and/or breaking in protected networks.

Don't get me wrong, I admire the Linux kernel devs. They are a standing tribute to all ideas of free and open source and open project management. But Linus himself said security isn't the first priority of the kernel which already means that certain potential problems in the code are being overlooked in favor of speed and stability.

(There was a story some weeks ago on HN showing that there was a pretty nasty exploitable bug in the Linux kernel but I lost the link.)