More VMware secret source splattered across internet

I'd like to think that this doesn't pose any risk...

...since attackers have always had the code to read - this is just source code and so a whole lot easier and perhaps with some thought-provoking comments ("we do it like this to minimise the timing window for an exploit, but we can't eliminate it entirely")

Of course what I'd really like to think is that it's an adamantine gem of a system and that no amount of code reading will reveal a flaw because there aren't any. But of course there are (as the steady stream of VMWare security releases shows), so I'll get back to more realistic daydreams ("women crave me for my body")

What's their problem anyway?

There is plenty of software out there that doesn't rely on keeping the Source Code secret from its own users. Enough to do anything you're ever likely to want to do with a computer, for that matter.

One day -- perhaps within our lifetimes! -- the law of the land will change, and software vendors will be required to supply Source Code to end users as a matter of course (the way packaged foodstuffs have to be marked with their ingredients and nutritional breakdown).

Two major release cycles later, nobody will want to go back to the Bad Old Days.