>If Google really wants to improve the software quality of the open source ecosystem, the best thing they could do is solve the funding problem.
Google is not a monolith. If you asked the board, or the shareholders of google what they thought of open source software quality they would say they don't give a rat's ass about it. Someone within google who does care has been given very limited resources to deal with the problem, and are approaching it in the most efficient way they can.
>it's just human nature that when someone says "you go ahead and do the work, I'll stand here and criticize", people get angry
Bug reports are not criticism, they are in fact contributions, and the human thing to do when someone contributes to your project is to thank them.
>This is a company that takes a lot of pride in being the absolute best of the best.
There was an era when people actually believed that google was the best of the best, rather than saying it as a rhetorical trick, and during that era they never would have dreamed of making such self centered demands of google. This project zero business comes across as the last vestige of a dying culture within google. Why do people feel the need to be so antagonitic towards it?
>I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are undiscovered vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel right now. Does that mean they should stop shipping?
Google is not a monolith. If you asked the board, or the shareholders of google what they thought of open source software quality they would say they don't give a rat's ass about it. Someone within google who does care has been given very limited resources to deal with the problem, and are approaching it in the most efficient way they can.
>it's just human nature that when someone says "you go ahead and do the work, I'll stand here and criticize", people get angry
Bug reports are not criticism, they are in fact contributions, and the human thing to do when someone contributes to your project is to thank them.
>This is a company that takes a lot of pride in being the absolute best of the best.
There was an era when people actually believed that google was the best of the best, rather than saying it as a rhetorical trick, and during that era they never would have dreamed of making such self centered demands of google. This project zero business comes across as the last vestige of a dying culture within google. Why do people feel the need to be so antagonitic towards it?
>I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are undiscovered vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel right now. Does that mean they should stop shipping?
Hence why I qualified "deliberately".