"Open Source" code payed for by corporations has always been utter, absolute crap -- as opposed to real Free Software written by "itch a scratch" or enthusiast volunteers or to closed source code which was later released under some free licence.
Just days ago I had a look at some sane (scanner) drivers from the hplip package (HP Linux Printing bla bla) -- absolutely disgusting crap, zero error checking, naive mistakes you only see in student homeworks. It's absolutely clear that nobody ever tested or reviewed that code besides the poor sob who painfully put it together.
And the BSDs in particular always had problems with all kind of sketchy orgs pushing their garbage in without any kind of review, by just "enticing" some senior devs -- do you know that the NetBSD kernel included (still includes?) a Lua interpreter?
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"Open Source" code payed for by corporations has always been utter, absolute crap -- as opposed to real Free Software written by "itch a scratch" or enthusiast volunteers or to closed source code which was later released under some free licence.
Just days ago I had a look at some sane (scanner) drivers from the hplip package (HP Linux Printing bla bla) -- absolutely disgusting crap, zero error checking, naive mistakes you only see in student homeworks. It's absolutely clear that nobody ever tested or reviewed that code besides the poor sob who painfully put it together.
And the BSDs in particular always had problems with all kind of sketchy orgs pushing their garbage in without any kind of review, by just "enticing" some senior devs -- do you know that the NetBSD kernel included (still includes?) a Lua interpreter?