From: Tony Williams 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> news:bfjiuuggcggs7hfeauu2e5amd92lsnsm7i{at}4ax.com...
>
>>>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.
>
>
> I could say that I'll choose not to trust a bunch of geeks who do things
> just because they're cool - I'd rather choose a known bad of two bads. But
> no, I'm not saying that, I'm just thinking out loud.
>
> (really: I trust neither of these two, but reality dictates that I have no
> choice but to trust them both)
>

Yeah, but at least you get to choose which one to complain about having to trust ;)

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Tony

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