Matthew Garrett on Nostr: Let me preface this by saying that I do absolutely believe the world would be better ...

Let me preface this by saying that I do absolutely believe the world would be better if Windows were Free Software, but https://www.fsf.org/news/lets-not-celebrate-crowdstrike-lets-point-to-a-better-way is a very odd post. The failure was due to a bug in Crowdstrike's code when fed invalid data, resulting in uninitialised memory being interpreted as a valid pointer value, which exploded when dereferenced. Having more access to the Windows source code wouldn't have helped here. If the argument is that *Crowdstrike* should be Free Software, sure!