https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668492 reflects pretty clearly on your thesis that the success of free software/culture is the unprofitability of the proprietary alternative.

Git ate BK's lunch.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-05-10T19:47:30Z

Mike Linksvayer likes this.

And it reflects on Linus's attitude that Mercurial was named after McVoy, whereas git was named after Linus. :-D

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-05-10T19:51:08Z

Security researchers have begun inspecting the code:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/301

lfam at 2016-05-10T20:34:33Z

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), j1mc likes this.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/312

We've never had anyone complain about this in a real world situation so we've never focussed on it.

I am not sure to fully understand, so allow me to rephrase based on my understanding. Because no one complained and found the problem before among your clients, (that likely didn't had the source code to begin with, and also no expectation of being able to read without likely infriging copyright), the BK team didn't focused on trying to be proactive and fixing security issues that ook 5 minutes to be found ?

Ouch.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-05-12T07:32:56Z