Aside from the fact that this bug was seen by eyes and fixed years ago (long enough ago that there's been a new LTS release with it fixed of several if not most distributions), even if they didn't know it was a security fix, this:
> We now know that the line "with many eyes, all bugs are shallow" is just wrong.
Remains approximately similar to saying, while watching the tide go out, that sea levels aren't rising. Anyone who ever thought it meant they were fixed instantaneously, and who uses the fact they get fixed and found as counter-proof of the sentiment, was wrong. It doesn't make the idea fundamentally wrong.
> We now know that the line "with many eyes, all bugs are shallow" is just wrong.
Remains approximately similar to saying, while watching the tide go out, that sea levels aren't rising. Anyone who ever thought it meant they were fixed instantaneously, and who uses the fact they get fixed and found as counter-proof of the sentiment, was wrong. It doesn't make the idea fundamentally wrong.