Re: "risky" PD software

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From: Bruno Wolff III
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:57

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Well there is some risk in running any software. However I would normally expect
commercial software to be of higher quality than PD software. Also when
purchasing shrink wrapped software there is less chance that the software has
been tampered with than software obtained from a bulletin board.
I would not feel too secure running software yanked off of a lot of bulletin
boards.
I don't feel there is really much risk to running a copy of TeX obtained
from U of Washington since there are a lot of people running it and if
something was odd about the copy of TeX there it would probably have been
found out about by now.

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From: bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III)
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Subject: Re:  "risky" PD software
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