回複：開源= open source

free software要求開源，但是開源不一定是free software.

為什麽安全性和開源有關呢，Richard Stallman的演講：

Another advantage of free software for businesses that use software is
security and privacy. And this applies to individuals as well, but I
brought it up in the context of businesses. You see, when a program is
proprietary, you can't even tell what it really does.

It could have features, deliberately put in that you wouldn't like if you
knew about them, like it might have a backdoor to let the developer get into your
machine. It might snoop on what you do and send information back. This
is not unusual. Some Microsoft software did this. But it's not only
Microsoft. There are other proprietary programs that snoop on the user.
And you can't even tell if it does this. And, of course, even assuming
that the developer's totally honest, every programmer makes mistakes.
There could be bugs that affect your security which are nobody's fault.
But the point is: If it's not free software, you can't find them. And you
can't fix them.

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• 回複：回複：開源= open source -南洋暴雪- ♂ (562 bytes) () 06/21/2007 postreply 04:52:48

• 閣下沒有讀懂，建議閣下找完整stallman演講 -butdie- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/21/2007 postreply 09:43:10