From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"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.


Antti Kurenniemi

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