Get APLawrence.com by RSSSomething all Open Source folks need to read
Fri Nov 21 20:43:23 GMT 2003 Something all Open Source folks
need to read.
Link: Lessons
from Oregon's Open Source bill
I've talked about the naivety of Open Source advocates in the
past. Here's an outline of how the game is really played. Important
reading.
Programmers and engineers often don't understand how the rest of the world works. As I have said many times, "Engineers CAN lie, but it makes them uncomfortable". Engineers, programmers, tech people in general prefer to tell the truth, staright up and simple, no embellishment, no slant, no hidden agendas. The rest of the world is more or less the direct opposite: their first thought on anything is probably "Should I be truthful here?".
Mix engineers and politicians and you get the harsh lessons that link above portrays.
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- Nov 21 07:55
@loudmouthman: correct, but how do you prove ANYTHING like that is accurate? You can't. A text file is no better or worse than anything. - Nov 21 07:40
@loudmouthman: well, a digital signature could prove it hadn't been altered. Text is no more insecure than anything else in that sense.
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