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From: | Terry |
Subject: | Re: [libreplanet-discuss] libreplanet-discuss Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3 |
Date: | Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:36:19 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 |
I think the single most important strength of open source software is trust. OSS is by it's very nature open to audit and inspection. This means the undesirable features like spyware while common-place in closed source are extremely rare in open source. Also closed source software may be engineered to game the end result, whereas open source is completely transparent. I would think that for their software and their motives to fully be credible, transparency such as that provided by open to inspection source code is key. At least that is why I require open source for software with essential purposes.
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