Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)
> If free/oss projects like Debian want to provide software with those
> positive characteristics to their users, those projects must have in
> place some level of oversight over what the persons who actually write
> the software actually do, or don't do in the case of failing to fix
> bugs that could easily be fixed, so that the goals of quality, useful,
> safe, and secure software are reached.
That's why I like Free Software: all of this is done out in the open,
making oversight particularly easy.
For proprietary code you generally simply can't do that at all because
it's all kept secret.
Stefan
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