Samir Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found writing on Tuesday, September 28,
1999 9:46 PM
> hello people,
> after listening to all the noise about the OUTLOOK article I decided to
> read it and I came across some rather interesting statements...
>
> "Nothing is safe with millions hackers piling onto to the open source code
> and changing it according to their wills and fancies"
> -- Neeraj Shaabi
> Marketing Manager
> Microsoft India
Thanks to the the guys who brought it to the notice such crap being
published under the respectable banner of OUTLOOK. Here is my 2x45=90 paise
on this article:
Security means having a secure knowledge. It is downright foolish for
someone to think that by hiding their source code into a locker makes a
software secure. The person who belives such crap is more naive than
illeterate abrogenies who bury their valuable in the hope nobody will find
them. Atleast they do not peddel their treasure.
In case of software, where the binary is available for all to debug and
hack, hiding the source code can give no security - it only allows knowledge
to be restricted. Restricting knowledge has its great economic advantage.
Greater the restriction more price the user is likely to pay for the
knowledge.
I strongly believe restricting knowledge, especially when it comes to an
enabling technology like software is not only bad - it is downright
criminal. Such restriction deprives humankind from benifit and cause more
harm than all the criminals do. This is the precise reason why we must
support open source software - GNU and Linux. and not for any fancy of M$
bashing or other such selfish reason.
- Soumya
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