I don’t understand this mindset.

In open source, both malicious actors and contributors will try to find problems.

In closed source, the development team is paid by hour (and probably don’t care about the product quality) and the only motivated people to find real issues are malicious actors.

But people still consider closed source safer.

Tin-foil hat on. So, with CCP/GSP, secret agencies are free to find backdoors on the system.

I didn’t know about those programs. I thought the Windows source code is kept secret from everyone.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvwacFNPxc

That smokescreen argument makes a lot of sense. Both the company and our clients, tend to opt for ready out-of-the-box proprietary solutions, instead of taking responsibility of the maintenance.

It doesn’t matter how bad or limiting that proprietary option is. As long as it somewhat fits our scenario and requires less code, it’s fine.

Pinky promise