Asking why popular software isn’t well funded is backwards. The question is, why is underfunded software popular?
Lots of under- and unfunded software is of poor quality and is ignored. Why is some of it (like OpenSSL) not ignored?
I don’t even think there is a market argument here, it’s much more pedestrian: a lot of people, based on social proof, use OpenSSL – which, short of becoming a crypto expert oneself, is entirely reasonable.
Lots of under- and unfunded software is of poor quality and is ignored. Why is some of it (like OpenSSL) not ignored?
I don’t even think there is a market argument here, it’s much more pedestrian: a lot of people, based on social proof, use OpenSSL – which, short of becoming a crypto expert oneself, is entirely reasonable.