Closed-source considered harmful (was: JavaScript considered harmful)

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:12:27PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Oleg> That Bad Company (as well as many others) is trying to develop
>     Oleg> dumb users ...
> 
> Given the rate of crashes and other bugs that company's users put up with,
> you could probably argue they've already succeeded in this regard. :-(

5. Those Powerful Corporations have not much interests in producing
good and secure software. It is better (for them) to sell updates and
patches. Why do we allow them to choose priorities? We, the users must
direct them. Act now! Stop using M$IE. Stop your Windoze! Learn and use
Free Software.
   Free Software is not perfect, certainly. But you, as a user, can talk to
developers, you can convince developers to produce software that suites
your needs. And even if you cannot convince that particular developer - it
is Free Software! You can grab its source code and hire another developer.
   Act now! Help save the world. Down with closed-source!

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.