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

In article <4676ED6B.BA40F433@xxxxxxxxx>, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes
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.

You have absolutely no justification for that statement.It is this sort of remark from FOSS people that proves it is a "religion" and its devotees have no basis in reality

It might be your attitude to programming but the majority of programmers I know take great pride in their work, the majority being closed source.

I have seen some appalling FOSS (as well as some good stuff) likewise with closed source. As it happens some of the best code I have seen was closed source.... but then I do a lot with high reliability and safety critical projects.

In fact I would go so far as to say that the closed source people I know take far more care than the open source people as the closed source people have to get it right. The open source people don't have to bother as the rest of the community will debug it for them....


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