Open_Source
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Tue Jun 2 16:40:00 UTC 2009
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 05:59:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
> >technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is simple:
> >I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
> >${APPLICATION} is doing, and how the developer designed it. This, in
> >itself, makes me better at what I do, and better at troubleshooting my
> >own code.
>
> I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to
> zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do.
>
> I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
> other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES! This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
////jerry
(ps. The other two are the quality of MS systems and MS business practices)
>
> If anyone would do this, soon someone else would see it because source
> code is available for everybody.
>
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