There is an interesting article over on DevX.com (see the full article at http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20111). In the article, DevXI don't find that article interesting at all; just painfully ignorant.
Trojans have been inserted into both open source and closed source programs. Discovery time for the open source programs was on the order of days (TCP Wrappers, the Linux Kernel), while discovery time in the closed source applications (e.g. InterBase <http://news.com.com/2100-1001-250896.html?legacy=cnet>) was years. At that, it was only discovered six months after Borland opensourced the code.
Russel Jones is [ignorant of the facts]. Don't encourage him by granting this crap the dignity of a discussion.
Crispin
-- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ CTO, Immunix http://immunix.com Immunix 7.3 http://www.immunix.com/shop/
