Make no mistake, if an outage similar to Crowdstrike would have been caused by OpenSource, there would be calls across the entire industry and at the government level to ban OpenSource from critical systems. But since it was caused by billion-dollar publicly-traded companies, nothing to see here, move-on.
@cslinuxboy Sure, but those calls would not be justified, just as calls to ban proprietary software from critical systems because of this outage are not justified either.
I mean, banning proprietary software is a good idea, but this Crowdstrike issue is not a good argument for it.
@lertsenem @cslinuxboy The point isn't that they wouldn't be justified.
The point is that whenever anything goes wrong and the software in question is open-source, there's invariably a stream of news articles about how open-source has failed.
But when the software is proprietary, everyone seems to accept the failure as something inevitable.