Re: Dishonest Forks? | Was - Re: [Namedroppers-honest] Brian Smith asks: Who is Dean Anderson?

on 3/10/2010 12:54 PM Dean Anderson said the following:
>> By 'dishonest' I'll assume you mean that in your opinon it is 'not
>> worthy of trust'?   Fine, so
>> be it.  Dan placed his software in the Public Domain,
>
> Actually, it seems that no responsible system administrator would place
> trust in anonymous and unaccountable system software. Most people agree
> that would be grounds for being fired unless the admin was very junior.

I'm sure a bunch of people on a LISA list would respond that way, when 
the question is phrased as such. But if you then pointed out that it was 
completely Open Source software, you would get a very different 
response. Not one of immediate trust, to be sure. But not an instant 
"that's a termination offense" either. It would be moderated by the fact 
that, even if they don't personally know or trust the source of the 
code, they can read the source code itself (depending on their ability 
to read and understand source code) and decide for themselves if it is 
trustworthy. This is the beauty of Open Source.