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  3. February 2004

RE: Be very careful from now on...

I disagree that that statement is wrong in the context of Microsoft (what we
were originally talking about...) but totally agree with you on Open Source.
You and I about everyone else outside of MS developers have no idea what is
in that code and never will. You and I and about everyone else can look at
Open Source. :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Lang
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Be very careful from now on...

The reverse is also true, which is the theory behind open source.  The good
guys get to see the code now also and can see what holes there are that only
MS knew about.  that is why your comment "clearly seeing things that we
can'" is wrong.  Now you can see as much as the bad guy can see.  The code
being out there puts everyone on even footing in regards to knowing how
things work.

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