Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Open Source - is it any better?

It's "common knowledge" in some circles that open source software is "better" - but is it true? Does software really want to be free? Is software created by committee really more secure? Do those who push open source (or at least some of them) have something besides software to sell?

I hear it all the time: open source is supposedly more inherently secure than proprietary commercial software, because it's "peer reviewed." That's the magic that the open sourcerers invoke, but they've never really explained to my satisfaction how opening up the kernel to any and everybody can make a program more secure. I can see how it could make for more features, but I can't see how it makes for more security.

Read the article HERE.

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