Why is open source software considered safer than other software you can find online?

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I always see people looking specifically for open source software and never knew why. Thanks!

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The idea is that you have lots of different folks pouring over the source code, finding and fixing bugs, in a way that can never happen for closed-source software, where you have a small team of contributors. It doesn’t always play out this way of course, but very often it does. When I released my first OSS project, I was shocked at the quality and volume of bug fixes that appeared as if out of nowhere.

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