Open_Source
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Tue Jun 2 15:59:58 UTC 2009
> 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.
If anyone would do this, soon someone else would see it because source
code is available for everybody.
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