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Re: preflight.sh: please review <VirusChecked>
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: preflight.sh: please review <VirusChecked> |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:03:34 +0100 (CET) |
> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:36:00 +0100
> From: "Philippe C.D. Robert" <phr@3dkit.org>
>
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 06:36:46 +0100 (CET)
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
> > > Don't be afraid of the script. It doesn't write anything to your hard
> > > disk.
> >
> > Why should we take your word? Plain wrong. It does write a lot of
> > temporary files on my hard disk! If you lied in this second sentence,
> > perhaps you lied on the first and we should be very afraid of it!
>
> Uhm ... I did not check the script in detail but I certainly know
> that this kind of wording is not gentleman alike... I am sure that
> if indeed Lars' comments are not 100% accurate he did not mean to
> lie.
Perhaps my using the word 'lie' was a little strong. I just wanted to
remind that care should be taken in any case when receiving
executables from the Internet. (One of the main reasons open source
is needed in these times: somebody must read them).
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