If you are talking about those categories in Google. The Google software didn't make them. They are from the Open Directory Project. The directory has been created by humans.
How is just distributing the binaries alone going to make things any more secure? With binaries alone you don't know the source that produced it? (In other words, you have no idea what's in the binary.) How would you know that secret backdoors weren't added to it too?
Also obscurity of binaries (through lack of source) does not gives, IMO, better secutiry. It gives less, since you may not be able to trust the producer of the binary. And not know if they went ahead and added secret backdoors without your knowing. At least if you have the source, you could check for secret backdoors.
I have (actually we have) been creating a game for next year's Indie Game Festival, and we've created a small language for it called Kool. We've had it named that since Dec '98. Any chance we can get Microsoft to cease and disist it's actions because of copyright infringment? Or something like that.
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Did anyone else read Spb Software as SBD Software? Or was it just me :-)
The directory, created by the Open Directory Project, is Open Content... so anyone can use it for free. And many do. (Including Google.)
Read this article... it gives an introduction to the Open Directory Project.
I remember a previous audio library called OpenAL. Is this the same one, or is this a new one?
Also obscurity of binaries (through lack of source) does not gives, IMO, better secutiry. It gives less, since you may not be able to trust the producer of the binary. And not know if they went ahead and added secret backdoors without your knowing. At least if you have the source, you could check for secret backdoors.
Hmmm...
I have (actually we have) been creating a game for next year's Indie Game Festival, and we've created a small language for it called Kool. We've had it named that since Dec '98. Any chance we can get Microsoft to cease and disist it's actions because of copyright infringment? Or something like that.