Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, madunix <madunix@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Open_Source Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906021757290.2065@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d3f56c90906020812t40c5fcbv178bcd7f702356f@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310906020843n3e7dc96ap28d5d622e844abf1@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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.
If anyone would do this, soon someone else would see it because source
code is available for everybody.
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