[butterdezillion]

That’s what my son says too. Drives him up the wall. But isn’t the point of open source that anybody could “check the work”?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Linux is Open Source. Before Linux there was this thing called UNIX. UNIX had a "kernel" which was a relatively small set of code that handled the very basics such as allowing users to read and write files.

The Linux "kernel" is outrageously huge. They've decided to put the baby and the bathwater in for no apparent reason. So yes, it is open source, but who the heck is going to search through the millions of lines of code to find any potential soft spots?