From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 20:49:50 +0200, "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.

I'll choose not to trust the convicted felon.

 /m

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