The headline is inflammatory and probably misleading, I thought it was regarded as poor form to editorialize by rewriting headlines.
Yet again, in threads like this there are lots of "never done anything" armchair quarterbacks pontificating about how to write "massive" (correct use of the word) software libraries without regard to the age of the software in question. X is really old, security concerns were different then. X preceded Linux by a long way and it was the increasing usage of Linux which made X itself achieve widespread adoption. Yes, it is kind of shocking that no one has scoured it for vulnerabilities so far but having looked at the code a long while ago I wouldn't want to have done it, it is awful.
Yet again, in threads like this there are lots of "never done anything" armchair quarterbacks pontificating about how to write "massive" (correct use of the word) software libraries without regard to the age of the software in question. X is really old, security concerns were different then. X preceded Linux by a long way and it was the increasing usage of Linux which made X itself achieve widespread adoption. Yes, it is kind of shocking that no one has scoured it for vulnerabilities so far but having looked at the code a long while ago I wouldn't want to have done it, it is awful.