big awoo notationI'm an abandonware radicalist; not only should abandoned software have its source released, abandoned hardware should be opened up to development to stop it being ewaste.
Thom, exceedingly pure@lofty I'm even more extreme. Since our entire society depends on the hardware and software we, corporations, and governments use - everything needs to be open source, from application down to firmware. To protect our privacy, national security, and competition all code must be open by default.
@thomholwerda you're coming at this from a security perspective, but I don't necessarily think open source code is inherently more secure; I'm coming at this from a "the survival of out planet depends on being able to repair and reuse items" perspective.
@lofty Valid point, of course, but I meant it more like that we have a right to know what our software and hardware is doing, and that's a hell of a lot easier with open code.
But yeah, agreed, it won't magically make code more secure - but it will make it harder to hide things.
Ángela Stella MatutinaIt will go a long way towards ensuring infrastructure remains viable.