From: "Geo." 

How many times have these guys gone over the code in BIND and Sendmail?

Geo.

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:3de941a6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> > "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.
> >
>
> Exactly - one vendor who makes claims which can't be independently
> verified or a collection of developers who review each others' work in
> the open (and who often seem to take great delight in striving to outdo
> each other). You might not verify the fix yourself, but you can be sure
> that others have done it for you.
>
> Turn the question on its head: who is it wiser to distrust?
>
> --
> Tony
>

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