Re: "Once We Squeeze All We Can Out of the United States, It Can Dry Up and Blow Away."

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:36:18 GMT, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:

> Of course trust is tantamount to our context. Nearly synonymous in the real
> world. I never stated otherwise, and it is in fact that trust that makes
> open sourced tools more attractive than closed source tools. In a closed
> source environment there is simply less upon which to build trust than
> there is in an open source environment.

If I write code, by myself, in a locked room, closed source and the very
same code, open source, which is more trustworthy (that it has not been
compromised)?

Sweeping statements re: open vs closed, Jeffrey.
 
> You can play "what if" games all day. As with most things we're dealing in
> shades of gray. Nothing can be implicitly trusted in an imperfect world.
> But at the end of all the academic banter we're going to end up with open
> source closer to the "white" end of the gray scale than closed source.

Perhaps, it will be ultimately the test of each product independently.

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