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Open Source a National Security Threat
n3xup writes "Dan O'Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software, suggests that open source software has the capability of being sabotaged by foreign developers and should not be used for U.S. military or security purposes. He likened Linux with a Trojan Horse- free, but in the end a lot of trouble. O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open Source community will have no chance of finding."
It's wrong that an intellectual property creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an IP creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
Lessee. IP creator shouldn't be rewarded too many times because it would stifle his creativity?
I find your reasoning shakey.
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If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
IT Guy #2: (puts down Moauntain Dew) Yeah?
IT Guy #1: I just installed the update to GNOME.
IT Guy #2: (Picks up Cheezy Poofs) Yeah?
IT Guy #1: Should it default to something called the "I Love Osama" theme?
IT Guy #2: (Searching for Ding Dongs) Dunno.
IT Guy #1: It has a picture of the smoking World Trade Centers on the desktop.
IT Guy #2: (Found Nutty Ho-Ho in pocket instead) Huh.
IT Guy #1: And the screensaver is the Nick Berg video.
IT Guy #2: (Looks tiredly in direction of bathroom) Huh.
IT Guy #1: Aw, crap. It just installed the Anthrax2WstrnDevl worm on every machine from here to the main data center in Atlanta.
IT Guy #2: So blame the Windows Longhorn server in the marketing cluster.
IT Guy #1: Eh. Good plan.
And so on and so forth...
--- Ban humanity.
It's wrong that an intellectual property creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an IP creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
Reform IP law and stop the M$/RIAA abuse.
Your sig is complete bullshit. The only person who should have the right to decide what "too many rewards" are for a work is the copyright/patent holder. Otherwise we're talking about censorship and government control of industry.
Or do you think Congress should decide that "640k copies of Windows should be enough for everybody?"
IP law is FINE. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do...it's keeping people inventing new things to get around other people's patents. Choice in solutions is a good thing...and having a dozen solutions that do the same thing is NOT a choice!
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Password "00000000", perhaps?