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That doesn't solve the original problem. It's just indirection from it... You still don't know what's going on in the background.
by monokrome 12y ago
That doesn't solve the original problem. It's just indirection from it... You still don't know what's going on in the background.
- GuiA 12y agoIt doesn't solve the original problem as it is stated, but it still solves the original problem. 99.99999% of Firefox users will never look at its source code, they just trust the Mozilla brand.
- sha90 12y agoPeople don't trust Mozilla because they read the code, they trust Mozilla because they do exactly what was described above. They do the things that foster trust.
- tomp 12y agoPeople trust Mozilla because someone could read the code (and probably, many people do).
- seabee 12y agoPeople trust Apple and nobody else can read their code. This suggests open source is not necessary to build trust.
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- xyproto 12y agoNo, people choose comfort and projecting an image of status over privacy. It's not because they trust Apple.
- drdaeman 12y agoI'm afraid Firefox is so abysmal noone could comprehend the whole project's code. Guess, we could only review a tiny bits of it (I had briefly read sync-related parts of code in hope I could replace them with something saner and simpler, but ditched the idea) and hope others did the same for other parts.
- lacus 12y agoIt may not answer the technical question but it helps to resolve the human one, which is what their actual concern here is.
- baddox 12y agoIt's not indirection. It's signaling.