Reply to post: Re: FOSS community?

Zlib crash-an-app bug finally squashed, 17 years later

Dan 55 Silver badge

Re: FOSS community?

The other great complaint about the FOSS world is there is too much choice, you're saying here that there's not enough. Oh well.

Why would anyone fork zlib or any other project which works well now? If the two original writers of zlib hang up their keyboards then I'm pretty sure someone would pick it up, and the code is available to be able to do that.

Imagine what would have happened if zlib were a closed-source library and the company had folded five years ago. That's the difference.

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