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

[Andrew Norton]

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On 5/13/2010 4:11 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> You also have the option of paying people of your choice to study
> and/or change the program for you.  That way, you choose who to trust.
> 
In buying propriety software, that's exactly what we're doing? The
difference is that the ones we've paid to check, are also the ones that
wrote it.

Indeed, it could be said that such code-checking is implicit in the
purchase of proprietary software. Indeed I'm sure it's a point that
could successfully be argued in court.


Of course, such instances of backdoor actions are even rarer than
terrorist incidents.....
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