open source - "Why do you use open source software? Anyone can open the code and tinker with it." - A Software Engineering g - devRant

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cafecortado

7852

6y

That's exactly the reason! 🤣🤣
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AlgoRythm

50327

6y

Does he think that downloading and changing the code for himself will magically change it on your system too?
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SortOfTested

19198

6y

@AlgoRythm
More likely he's bought into the corporate profit and security in obscurity train of thoughts. Libertarianism-as-code.
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aj7397

511

6y

@AlgoRythm Yeah and I'm still stunned.
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Root

77073

6y

Uninformed and/or an idiot.
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linuxxx

142258

6y

On your own system, you can, sure
On git-hub/lab/whatever, sure, if your pull request gets accepted.
On someone else's system: nope.
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jschmold

82

6y

This confused the hell out of me until I read it like:

"Why would you ever use Open Source? ..."

Now I get the facepalm
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aj7397

511

6y

@sudocode ikr 😂😂
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linuxxx

142258

6y

@sudocode Good point! Case closed.

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