From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:3de90677{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3de90000$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I chose the words carefully. You have a choice to trust many people
> > working out in the open and having their efforts publicly reviewed, or
> > to trust a single source with no third-party corroboration. Either way
> > you have to trust somebody to not have made a mistake or been malicious
> > - what's that saying? "Trust, but verify". Closed
source lacks the
> > "verify" portion.
>
> That is true to an extent - for a normal average user the open source
lacks
> the "verify" as well (who has the knowledge / time to go
find out if some
> problem has been fixed in all the millions of lines of code?). So it's a
> question of who to trust.
>
>

Yes & no. The point behind linux etc is that it gives you this choice.
i.e. If the only choice is MS then whatever you think/trust etc is
irrelevant.

Adam

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