Exploring Security Challenges in Open Source Communities

Even as he referred to the "cost of transparency" uncovered by his research, Sam Ransbotham, a professor at Carroll School of Management, acknowledged that "the transparency benefits far outweigh this cost. ... The challenge for open source communities is to maintain the benefits while mitigating the downsides." It's hard to imagine a topic more central to the argument for or against free and open source software than security.

Hardly a day goes by without news of some fresh exploit in the Windows environment, after all -- but what about Linux and other open software? Can they do better?

That's essentially the question we put to the two participants in LinuxInsider's first FOSS Face-Off this week, focusing on that very topic.

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