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Article #1339Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Clancy Dalebout
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy Louis B. Moore <moore.louis@childrens.tchden.org> wrote: [snip] > Society will change its mind as it discovers peer review of code makes > it more reliable and safer. I for one would be real cautious of using > a 40 million line OS to run my business if only a single company with > a vested interest in my continued support of their revenue stream could > access the source code. [snip] I'll do you one better. I'll say that closed-source software is a threat no national security. What ran the tracking system for the patriot missiles in the gulf war? Solaris. I'm not impeaching Mr. McNealy's patriotism, but how do we know some Sun developers wouldn't be opposed to violence and include a secret trigger in Solaris to disable it? The point is not that it is likely, but possible. -- Clancy Dalebout | xmsho@!spam!nein!yahoo.com I keep trying to tell my boss that no, Satan is a tool of Linux, not the other way around.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Clancy Dalebout <fleegix@shell2.aracnet.com> Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <6ve0j7$17m$1@spitting-spider.aracnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 398402350 References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uipd0$oj8$1@winter.news.erols.com> <87zpbmkhdn.fsf@ivm.de> <kbCveHAOyWD2EwdN@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980927140803.10597B-100000@howard> <m3af3knl8m.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <6up86o$t23$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <9nQpxDAYqKE2EwlY@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6v0oet$avl$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <OHkl5KAObKF2EwIy@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <yq3ogrvc6kb.fsf_-_@nasrullah.tchden.org> Organization: Aracnet Internet User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: fleegix@aracnet.com (Clancy Dalebout)