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The source being open puts huge pressure on the developer not to put in backdoors. Overmore, your claim > Nobody outside a tiny minority of geeks treats free
by madez 9y ago
The source being open puts huge pressure on the developer not to put in backdoors.
Overmore, your claim
> Nobody outside a tiny minority of geeks treats free software as a selling point.
is wrong. Just to give one counterexample, the European Comission is not a bunch of geeks and they strongly prefer free software.
- Karunamon 9y agoWe're not talking about backdoors. We're talking about stuff that's exposed up front before the user can even install the program. The EC is a statistical anomaly. One agency out of how many out there?