On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Mano <[email protected]> wrote: >> I guess you mean data lock in!!! Privacy itself is of supreme concern in OSS. >> > > I get some doubts here regarding privacy. In GNU/Linux or any > other UNIX, the default file permissions are 755, which means that > anybody who logs into that system can read/execute any of our files. > This means that there is no data privacy by default, unless we change > the umask ? Or am I wrong ? > > I feel that OSS's concern is more about data ownership than about > data privacy. >
Interesting observation and I think you have a point there. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
