alt Hacker NewsThis seems similar to the lesson learned for cryptographic libraries where open source libraries vetted by experts become the most trusted.
Your average open source library isn’t going to get that scrutiny, though. It seems like it will result in consolidation around a few popular libraries in each category?
An important difference between SaaS offerings and open source libraries is that the latter have not liability. They can much more easily afford exhibiting vulnerabilities until those are fixed.