(FINANCIAL TIMES) - The world runs on open-source software. What began as a crazy-sounding experiment - letting voluntary, self-organising communities write and maintain widely used pieces of software - has turned into a central part of the tech landscape. The average application these days includes more than 500 open-source components.
So it's more than a little alarming to discover that, more than two decades into the open-source era, glaring security holes sometimes surprise even the experts.
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