Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:59:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980510184610.23814A-100000@austral> In-Reply-To: <199805102109.OAA00664@rah.star-gate.com>
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Another argument for open source is that one really has to trust what is in closed source systems, and that this ought to be unacceptable when security is really at stake. No doubt organizations such as the Pentagon and the FBI (and the former KGB and the Mafia!) use proprietary operating systems, although I don't know to what extent they use them for really critical applications. How do they KNOW that the supplier, or clever renegade employees who have taken unauthorized Easter eggs to new heights, haven't embedded code that they would not like to be there? How do they KNOW that MegaHard Corp hasn't fused its operating system to shut down in 1999 if the soon-to-be-announced renewal fee hasn't been paid? They don't buy encryption products that say "just trust me". Why do they buy operating systems? The danger is certainly as great. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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