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Eghbal: OpenSSL had only one paid maintainer when Heartbleed hit
“There was, like, a very critical bug that was found in OpenSSL, and the question Was, well, why did nobody find this before? And the answer was, because there are, like, two, there's one paid person, and there's, like, 10 volunteers that are working on this.”
Eghbal: Tech giants have replaced academia in funding major software breakthroughs
“You still need people to think about, like, why are we building it this way, or what does the actual system look like? And that role is actually kind of being filled lately by companies like Google or Facebook that have the resources to make big strides the wa…”