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3 Reasons Why Open Source is Safer than Commercial Software. An Opinion.
Reported by whitesourcesoftware.com
By Dr. Ron Rymon, Co-Founder and Chairman of WhiteSource Software The use of open source components is booming. According to analyst firms such as Forrester, Gartner, and 451 Research, 80-90% of all commercial software developers use open source components and make them an integral part of their software.
However, following recent security vulnerability events such as Heartbleed, Shellshock, and Poodle, the debate over security of open source components has intensified.
In this post, I would like to make the claim that open source components are often SAFER than the average commercial closedsource software.
Here are my arguments:
Security researchers often complain that it can take months and even years for some vendors to address a vulnerability they have discovered. And if it takes long to fix and release, customers remain exposed.
My conclusions:
In fact, a research by WhiteSource shows that over 95% of vulnerable open source components found in 6450 commercial software projects researched had newer versions that fixed the problem.
How can all this help you build better software?
And of course you can use WhiteSource to do all this for you, automatically and effortlessly.
