"SERCONI, Miguel Hernández" wrote:
>
> them?. From a point of view of someone that don´t know anything about linux
> it seems to me as not secure because everyone knows the code and can change
> it.
Let's face the issue this way:
- You're a programmer and you want [choose one: be recongized as a good
programmer, learn how to write some code, improve someother's work], so
you release your own version for a free (and open source) program. If you
something bad, everybody will know it, because everyone can inspect the
the code, and at least one or two skilled people will audit the code
because thell will use/improve/support your stuff
- If something is wrong, it's easier to fix it if you have the source code.
- You trust in what you can audit, otherway, you have to trust in the
good-behaviour of some vendor.
In both cases (closed and open source software), people audit the software
(reverse engineering or code auditing), some of them with good purposes,
some of them with bad thoughts.... but the good thing is that the choice
is yours... :-)
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