[pp.int.general] Why Free Software misses the point

[quemener.yves at free.fr]

----- "Andrew Norton" <ktetch at gmail.com> a écrit :
> And who do you put your trust in with free software? some anon
> coders?

They are not anonymous. Most of them are proud of the code they have written and you have access to the whole history of the code. THAT is accountability. Give me the name of the people who coded the SONY rootkit or who are responsible of Microsoft's clippy. For almost all open source project there is a publicly known boss and usually developpers also do commits using their real names. Transparency is here, accountability is here much more than the standard "you can't sue us" EULA of classical closed source software, and if you want the same kind of accountability that some closed source companies offer, nothing forbids you to pay for that supplemental service, while still having the source code at your disposal.