Comment by samus
5 days ago
You have a pretty strongly worded stance, but you don't provide an argument for it. May I suggest you detail why exactly you think their perspective is wrong, apart from "a lot of problems in the past could have been avoided"?
My view here isn't uncommon, even if it's a minority view. I've noticed a lot of people tend to just defend and adopt the stances of projects they like or use without necessarily thinking things through, and I assume that's at least partly the case here.
There's been a lot of criticism written on the kernel devs stance over the last, what, 20 years? One obvious problem is that without giving security bugs, i.e. vulnerabilities priority, systems stay vulnerable until the bug gets patched at whatever place in the queue it happens to be at.