From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:3DE69ED6.1020209{at}blarg.net...
> Disagree. There are enough tools out there (e.g. nm, which is available
> on Windows) to find out which functions a binary is using that the
> difference between closed and open is negligible from a hacker's POV.
>
> The difference is that the vendor of a closed source program is the only
> one who can (legally) provide a fixed version, whereas if the app is
> open-source it can be fixed by anybody.

I have to ask, would you like an important part of your system to be fixed
"by anybody"? I don't see that as an absolute positive thing...


Antti Kurenniemi

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