Wez Furlong has a response to an article written by Marcus Whitney on his blog about the "Juvenile Demands and Criticism of Open Source Development".

I just spent a while composing this response as a comment on Marcus Whitney's "Juvenile Demands and Criticism of Open Source Development". Since it turned out quite long, I thought that I'd turn it into a blog entry of my own. Marcus is indirectly referring to someone that I'm going to call Mr. E.

When a PHP application is popular and is riddled with holes, PHP itself is tarnished by the reputation of that application. Mr E devotes a lot of his time listening out for news of problems, as well as searching them out and coming up with patches to address them. You can (and probably should) forgive him getting annoyed when he's put out all the effort, often supplying a patch to address the problem, and had no one take any positive action.

Things like this will always be around in the Open Source community - as long as there are those people out there that aren't as flexible as they should be. I like how Wez puts it:

My personal opinion on the responsibilities of OpenSource development is this: it's good, it's free, there's no warranty. If it works for you, that's great. If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces. The author doesn't owe you anything; you get what you pay for. If there are security flaws, so be it; there is nothing that says that the author has to push out a release immediately, nor is there anything that says that they have to handle the matter according to the proper form for disclosure of security problems.