I think that's a fair analysis of the matter. The author tries to make some sort of claim which says that open source is a breeding ground for mal-contented programmers in the world who want to cause trouble. But yet he cites no evidence of an instance where a notable open source project has ever been highjacked in such a way. The Open Source Community is who is watching open source. So on this side we're trusting the Eyes of everyone in the open source community who builds their own stuff, who reads code and so on.
Now we have the other camp, the camp of properiatary software. Well the question needs to be, who is watching Microsoft? Well to some extent government's of the world are doing what they can to watch MS but this only applies in some countries at some time when the price is right. Hell a great many governments can't afford to liscense all the MS stuff they'd need, the money would be better spent somewhere else. And yet This author would claim that its better to trust handful of people in the employment of a convicted monopolist. The Foxxes are watching the henhouse indeed here.
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I think that's a fair analysis of the matter. The author tries to make some sort of claim which says that open source is a breeding ground for mal-contented programmers in the world who want to cause trouble. But yet he cites no evidence of an instance where a notable open source project has ever been highjacked in such a way. The Open Source Community is who is watching open source. So on this side we're trusting the Eyes of everyone in the open source community who builds their own stuff, who reads code and so on. Now we have the other camp, the camp of properiatary software. Well the question needs to be, who is watching Microsoft? Well to some extent government's of the world are doing what they can to watch MS but this only applies in some countries at some time when the price is right. Hell a great many governments can't afford to liscense all the MS stuff they'd need, the money would be better spent somewhere else. And yet This author would claim that its better to trust handful of people in the employment of a convicted monopolist. The Foxxes are watching the henhouse indeed here.