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> You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. Meanwhile, in the real world, Sourceforge injects adware in to downloads for open source project
by bradleyland 12y ago
> You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Sourceforge injects adware in to downloads for open source projects. Trust is more subtle than open source/closed source.
- icebraining 12y agoWell, that depends if you read that has a "repository of open source software" or a "repository that is open source". Sourceforge doesn't qualify as the latter.
- unstabilo 12y agoHe didn't say all open source is trustworthy, only that closed source is not. And Sourceforge, the repository itself is not open source.
- dragonwriter 12y ago"You can't trust anybody outside of group X" does not imply "You can trust everybody inside of group X".
- cowls 12y agoTrue, but then that is not what he said, you conveniently reworded it ;)
- dragonwriter 12y ago> True, but then that is not what he said, you conveniently reworded it ;) I reworded it for generality, but specifically, "You can't trust anybody except open source repositories" does not imply "You can trust all open source repositories" in exactly the same way as, in more general terms, "You can't trust anybody outside of group X" does not imply "You can trust everybody inside of group X".