>I realise it's hard for FOSS advocates to understand this, because it's a fundamental flaw with the FOSS philosophy. The benefits are "obvious" to crusaders, but the objective reality is that large swathes of FOSS are full of casual or hobby code that barely works, has gaping security vulns, and/or is nowhere close to being robust enough for production.
>And the solution then is to not use FOSS, because then you don't have to take the internals on trust?
I think the point is to realize FOSS is not a utopia and has tradeoffs like everything else.
>I realise it's hard for FOSS advocates to understand this, because it's a fundamental flaw with the FOSS philosophy. The benefits are "obvious" to crusaders, but the objective reality is that large swathes of FOSS are full of casual or hobby code that barely works, has gaping security vulns, and/or is nowhere close to being robust enough for production.
>And the solution then is to not use FOSS, because then you don't have to take the internals on trust?
I think the point is to realize FOSS is not a utopia and has tradeoffs like everything else.