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Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms

Posted by beaner on 2004-02-23 07:23:09

In reply to RobEnderle

You miss the point that, yes, although it IS possible that Bob from accounting could possibly be the guy that writes a patch, it IS more than unlikely because a person good anough at programming to create patches for Linux is more likely to work in programming that he is to work in accounting.
You are also missing the fact that the contributors identity are known and made public. How easy would it be to verify the ID of all the contributors against say, a database of company employees...Not very difficult.
And you are also missing the fact that, just because Bob in accounting made a patch, the code to the patch and the code of the application can be verified for any so called security breatch.
You're just plain wrong and I suspect that whoever you were talking to that gave you the idea for this piece probably mentionned a possible worst case senario, and you ran with it...anything to discredit OSS.
As usual.


*	Topic	Author	Date
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	Rob Enderle	2004-02-17 21:02:48
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	beaner	2004-02-24 06:19:24
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 08:20:23
	Re: Can Closed-Source Software Survive an Audit? (was Open)	heron	2004-02-22 20:41:15
	Re: Can Closed-Source Software Survive an Audit? (was Open)	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 08:06:47
	Rob undermines his own opinion.	sgt_jake	2004-02-19 12:59:42
	Re: Rob undermines his own opinion.	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 09:55:04
	I call hypocracy	bangular	2004-02-24 05:33:38
	Re: I call hypocracy	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 08:14:22
	Interesting	sgt_jake	2004-04-15 08:14:40
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	jejones3141	2004-02-19 04:04:20
	Re: Can Rob Enderle Survive Reality?	timransom	2004-02-18 20:44:12
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	ptarra	2004-02-18 14:05:38
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	beaner	2004-02-18 13:27:35
	Playing fast and loose with your terms	shadow255	2004-02-18 11:15:07
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 09:25:26
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	cricketjeff	2004-02-20 10:01:04
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 11:32:51
	Contradictions	JoeBunting	2004-02-24 04:52:15
	Re: Contradictions	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 07:52:36
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	beaner	2004-02-23 07:23:09
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 08:27:26
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	cricketjeff	2004-02-20 16:11:42
	Re: Playing fast and loose with your terms	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 08:48:54
	Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	bangular	2004-02-18 13:04:46
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	bangular	2004-02-19 02:47:43
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	cricketjeff	2004-02-20 06:11:08
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	bangular	2004-02-19 17:18:27
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	beaner	2004-02-19 09:12:37
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 08:53:30
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	beaner	2004-02-23 08:08:52
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 08:36:20
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	beaner	2004-02-23 08:00:28
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 09:42:54
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	beaner	2004-02-27 07:01:32
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	cricketjeff	2004-02-20 10:07:40
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 11:47:05
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	cricketjeff	2004-02-20 14:34:19
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 17:07:52
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	bangular	2004-02-23 14:00:50
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 09:54:11
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	bangular	2004-02-24 10:40:08
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 11:14:21
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	bangular	2004-02-24 13:27:47
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 14:10:10
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	cricketjeff	2004-02-21 06:39:38
	Re: Troll your boat, troll your boat, gently down the streeeeam	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 09:00:57
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	jmpnop	2004-02-18 10:19:40
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 07:52:51
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	pasikoistinen	2004-02-26 01:46:13
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	ixnayrox	2004-02-17 21:08:56
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-20 10:30:36
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	beaner	2004-02-23 07:51:47
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 14:33:19
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	phfcpa	2004-02-21 07:19:36
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 09:15:42
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	alfarom	2004-02-24 05:45:42
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 09:27:45
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	alfarom	2004-02-24 13:47:46
	Re: Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?	RobEnderle	2004-02-24 15:00:56
	Personally, you're wrong...	DarkProximity	2004-02-25 09:46:24
	Re: Personally, you're wrong...	Smithy2004	2004-02-25 13:23:05
	sorry, I had to leave	DarkProximity	2004-02-26 10:21:45
	hehe... let me explain.	DarkProximity	2004-02-26 05:58:42