wisplike_sustainer@suppo.fitoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?English
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1 year agoIf your software makes your clients’ life easier and your internal operations cheaper/faster/whatever, it’s a competitive advantage. Why would you give it away? Corporate greed or healthy competition, I suppose, depending on your point of view.
The article you linked seems to suggest that Linus’s Law is a mere suggestion, at best.
No one is suggesting that open source is inherently less secure, just that the vulnerabilities are easier to find, and thus easier to get exploited. For a third party reviewer there’s a lot of incentive not to report bugs they would find in banking software.