Responsibility Is A Chosen Task (Score 1)

Let's not forget that most of the work that has been done on the Linux kernel was done by people who did it simply because they wanted to. Not because anybody was paying them or holding a gun to their head, but because they had the passion for an open project. And nobody who puts his free time into open source is forcibly responsible for anything. If you don't want to be responsible for the kernel, you simply don't work on it. The people who do work on the kernel do it because they love it. And I have enough faith in the OSS community that anyone who wrote code with a security flaw in it that knows about it, would take responsibility and fix it. That's just the way open-source coders operate; it's the open-source idealism.