Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)
On 9/13/2022 6:47 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > If free/oss projects like Debian want to provide software with those
> > positive characteristics to their users, those projects must have in
> > place some level of oversight over what the persons who actually write
> > the software actually do, or don't do in the case of failing to fix
> > bugs that could easily be fixed, so that the goals of quality, useful,
> > safe, and secure software are reached.
>
> That's why I like Free Software: all of this is done out in the open,
> making oversight particularly easy.
>
> For proprietary code you generally simply can't do that at all because
> it's all kept secret.
>
>
> Stefan
>
We really agree on this point, thanks.
Chuck
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