On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2003 08:41, Tal, Shachar wrote: > > > It makes it harder, as diffs are examined (by a single person or two > > people) before introducing code to the main branch. > > It's possible to obfuscate a backdoor, of course, but harder than > > when no one is watching. > > Or to put it shorty: > > > Bad closed source company: no one watches the code. > Good closed source comapny: one or two person watches the code. > Open Source: ~10k of the world best programmer watch the code.
I get the impression that in practice the number of people who actually watch any given piece of open source code is significantly smaller, and, ufortunately, the number of people who use any given piece of code without ever taking a look is big - some of them reason that it must be good because of said ~10k. > > Take your pick.. :-) Best tool for the job. Some of them are open source, some are not. > Gilad > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
