Development quotes of the week [LWN.net]

In summary: closed-source code is more annoying to improve, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. Also, strange Russians on forums make everything easier.

— Matthew Garrett

The requirement from Google has caused mild panic among silicon suppliers and ODMs, as they’re having to actually interact with an open source upstream project and a slightly grumpy maintainer that wants to know lots of details about hardware that doesn’t implement one of the dozens of existing protocols that fwupd supports. These are companies that have never had to deal with working with "outside" people to develop software, and it probably comes as quite a shock to the system.

— Richard Hughes (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Development quotes of the week

Posted Nov 21, 2019 3:36 UTC (Thu) by jlargentaye (subscriber, #75206) [Link] (1 responses)

and later in Richard Hughes' article:

All the firmware parsers have to be paranoid and written defensively, because it’s me that looks bad on LWN if CVEs get issued.

😏

(emphasis mine)

Development quotes of the week

Posted Nov 21, 2019 4:25 UTC (Thu) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667) [Link]

There's also a follow-up blog post - Growing the fwupd ecosystem - where the author realises they probably shouldn't have invited the legion of hardware companies to contact them personally. ;)