On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Raymond Hettinger<pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: > > [Matthew Wilkes] >> >> Oh, I didn't mean they should use proprietary software, just that in my >> experience the kind of people who are active in open source are quite >> anti-war, green, etc. There are notable exceptions, but I know people who >> worry that their work will have military applications, and who turn down >> projects because of it. > > I question the whole notion of using open source in military weapons. > It seems like a rather basic violation of operational security. Perhaps > your enemies will exploit your bugs instead of nicely reporting them > and submitting patches on SourceForge ;-)
Eric Raymond would argue that it's probably the other way around -- proprietary software doesn't have enough eyeballs to make it safe. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
