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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