I am going to go out on a limb here and declare Bruce a non-M$ weenie. It
took guts I tell you.
Regards,
Travis
At 03:11 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:39:25PM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> > > >So has any expert ever audited qmail or djbdns?
> > >
> > > No. Any audit worth doing would be prohibitively expensive for a
> > > freeware project. $1000 wouldn't even begin to cover it, at least for
> > > qmail.
> >
> > Not to mention that the whole point of freeware and open source software in
> > general is to give everyone the ability to audit the software, not just a
> > select few.
>
>Dan's software isn't open source. I imagine he might value peer
>review, but I'm not aware of his having stated so - certainly not in
>regard to motivation for his distribution terms. Also, making source
>available does not give everyone the ability to audit the software.
>It gives them permission. But most people won't be any better able to
>do a quality audit for having the source. Only the "select few" will
>be able to audit it well, regardless of the license, and they can
>afford to charge a hefty fee, regardless of the license.
>
>
>paul
Travis Turner
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Applied Integration Corporation
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