Why I’m optimistic about all the open-source bug reports

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | September 4, 2026
Burglar Alarm by O.B.McClintock Co. in Scandia, Minnesota -- by Flickr user Lorie Shaull.

So the intertubes are all abuzz about reports of newfound vulnerabilities in open-source software. For instance, consider this breathless headline: WordPress Tightens Bug Bounty Scope After Monthly Security Reports Nearly Double to 773 Sounds awful.  But to see why I’m less concerned, see what I think is the key paragraph in that post “Last month…

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Why the difference between real WordPress vs for-profit “WordPress.com” matters

By David Innes, RealBasics.com | March 2, 2024

Short answer? Real WordPress is free, open-source, created and distributed by a not for profit foundation, and distributed to individual tens of millions of personal web servers around the world.Meanwhile, the for-profit, deceptively named WordPress.com is a social-media-style company like Twitter or Facebook, with terms of service that let the owners freely collect and sell…

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