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Trusting software
Jason Miller, 2005-12-07

Open-source or closed-source, it's the same issue. Using other people's software has a lot to do with trust. If you don't trust the right people, you're putting yourself at risk.

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Trusting software 2005-12-07
Ray Kaplan (2 replies)
Re: Trusting software 2005-12-19
Anonymous
Re: Trusting software 2005-12-19
hkmaly
Trusting software 2005-12-08
Don Parker
Trusting software - what goes around comes around 2005-12-08
Steve Lodin (1 replies)
One side effect of source availability 2005-12-08
jesse (1 replies)
One side effect of source availability is that the author will tend to be more carefull.

I know my coding has improved since public exposure has ment that I have to explain unclear code (over and over and ...).

That now means that I make the code clearer the first time, and make better comments to explain the remaining tricky parts.

Which in turn, makes it harder to introduce bugs... either through the original coding, or later updates.

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