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

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:49:27 +0100, Dave Howe wrote:

> Ari Silversteinn wrote:
>> 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)?

> Its a meaningless question. to you that locked-room code is open source
> (because you can see it).

But you can't so its closed and it is not available to you.

>To us its closed source so it is harder for us to
> verify you didn't mess up while writing it.

I'm not concerned about you, I am writing it for myself.

> Both are equally secure and trustworthy *to you*. To us, the OSS version is
> more trustworthy because we can verify it without having to decompile and/or
> unobscure.

See above.

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