How to (not) fix a security flaw

Posted Apr 8, 2019 12:39 UTC (Mon) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
In reply to: How to (not) fix a security flaw by Yenya
Parent article: How to (not) fix a security flaw

Yet generalizations like that tend to stigmatize people which, esp given we are talking about one of the most populous countries on earth, is deeply unfair. So yeah, it would be nice not to get such gross over generalizations on LWN. I know this happens, no doubt, but at least refer to ‘low wage coutries’ as that emphasizes the problem (managements desire to cut cost at the expense of everything else) rather than sound like all people in India are low quality developers. Keep in mind that these developers do exactly as told: ‘be cheap’. It is in the end indeed a matter of bad management decisions, not bad people.

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How to (not) fix a security flaw

Posted Apr 8, 2019 12:52 UTC (Mon) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846) [Link]

I hope I did not write anything which is in conflict wrt. your wording. Yes, I agree that part of the reason is "be cheap" as you wrote. I tried to make two points:

1) mentioning India in that context is not _racist_ (it might carry some presumptions about countries or whatever, but nothing about races per se)

2) there are indeed _some_ (not all, not even majority, nothing like that) barely competent just-out-of-college IT wokers in India.

As such, I fail to see a problem with the original post by mebrown (https://lwn.net/Articles/784998/).