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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:36:14 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Open_Source
Message-ID:  <200906031236.14533.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021757290.2065@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:59:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to
> zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do.
>
> I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
> other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.

I agree completely.  I'd never voluntarily trust my personal information to a 
system that I (or other interested parties on my behalf) couldn't audit.
-- 
Kirk Strauser



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