From: Tony Williams 

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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