Re: What's the story with the "end of XP"?

Chris Hills wrote:
<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

With an open source product, you are much safer. *I* may not
understand much of the source code for GPG (an open source
alternative to PGP), but I can be confident that there are
plenty of people around the world who *do* understand it.

I doubt that.

If flaws are found, they will be fixed quickly - open source
developers can't hide flaws in the same way closed source
developers can.

This is also not true.

All your arguments previously seems to imply there is a
difference between closed source and open source programmers.

Yes there is. If nothing else, opensourcers know their code will
be examined and criticized, so they pay more attention. The
closedsourcers don't really care.

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