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sulu is offline sulu
2018-08-06 , 12:19
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#52
Originally Posted by nthn View Post
Regarding the 'benefits of open source' discussion, I'll just point to this short article by rms. You (sulu and others) bring practical arguments into a discussion which is purely about ethics. pichlo is right here, In that there is nothing inherently more trustworthy in 'open source' than in 'closed source' software. You place your trust in people, not in code.
You're both right and wrong.
I largely agree with this statement of RMS you linked and I also agree with pichlo about FLOSS not being inherently more trustworthy than CSS.
However, BECAUSE trust is about people and software is about technology, you need some sort of translation matrix to bring them both together.
FLOSS is that translation matrix, more precisely it's two of them:
Free Software and Open Source. Both trying to reach the same goal from different starting points and for different reasons.
 

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