Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:37:49 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open_Source Message-ID: <20090602163749.GA23560@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021757290.2065@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021757290.2065@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 05:59:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
> >technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is simple:
> >I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
> >${APPLICATION} is doing, and how the developer designed it. This, in
> >itself, makes me better at what I do, and better at troubleshooting my
> >own code.
>
> 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.
YES! This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
////jerry
(ps. The other two are the quality of MS systems and MS business practices)
>
> If anyone would do this, soon someone else would see it because source
> code is available for everybody.
>
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