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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"