Re: Open Source is necessary, but not sufficient
"Open source code makes it easier to find bugs (and much easier to fix them), but they can be found by a sufficiently motivated individual with no access to the code."
There are plenty of bugs which manifest themselves as incorrect program behaviour; you don't need access to the source code to identify these.
Your best bet in the closed source world is to devise a simple reproducer, and I would argue that that is often the best bet for an open source project.
Unless you have the time, inclination and skillset, with open source you are possibly going to get a fix faster by submitting your reproducer to someone who is already familiar with that code. They will quite probably get to the problem far faster than you would.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
