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   cslinuxboy (cslinuxboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 23:53:28 JST cslinuxboy

   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.

   #CrowdStrike #Linux #OpenSource #Outage #Microsoft

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 23:53:28 JST Church of Jeff

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     @cslinuxboy — based on what I understand (and I understand it from a professional expert level, no casual Dunning-Kruger effect) about the driver that got uploaded that caused the issue, if just ONE person ANYWHERE at Crowdstrike had simply loaded it onto ANY machine, they would have found the issue before pushing it out.
     There are a lot of jokes about QA right now but that has nothing to do with QA if they never had a chance to test it. Someone above QA made that decision.

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 23:57:25 JST Church of Jeff

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     @cslinuxboy — with this in mind, no OpenSource software would be subject to such decision making arrogance that these corporations have.
     Having loosely organized individuals that must work mostly on consensus (and having public discourse), the likelihood of something like this happening in OpenSource is much smaller.