Comment Re: not just many eyes (Score 4, Insightful) 255
It's not that just "being open source" automatically means code is being validated by lots of eyes. It means that you can look at the code. All we need is more people interested in doing that, or paid to do so. They also need to have the knowledge/skill necessary to do that.
And as always, being closed source would not have made the issues easier to find. And then you'd be at their mercy waiting for a fix. These were all found and all fixed relatively quickly, so let's focus on that.
SSL certainly isn't a simple library. Increased complexity makes it easier to make a mistake and harder to find it.