[OT] Windows dying

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On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 05:13:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> There is another side to this argument, though.  How many times 
> have *you* reviewed the source code of the software that you 
> use on a daily basis?  Do you really *trust* the code that you 
> theoretically *can* review, but haven't actually reviewed?  Do 
> you trust the code just because some random strangers on the 
> internet say they've reviewed it and it looks OK?

I did make that point ;-)

Of course you can't even view closed source. So there is no way 
to audit it, and therefore no way to trust it. Full stop. That 
cannot be argued against.

On the otherhand, just being open source, does not mean it can be 
trusted - just look at the OpenSSL debacle - that's a great case 
study if ever there was one..

But Ken Thompson summed it all up nicely: "You can't trust code 
that you did not totally create yourself."

http://vxer.org/lib/pdf/Reflections%20on%20Trusting%20Trust.pdf

But the key value of open source, is not that you can (or cannot) 
trust it, but that it's an enabler of evolution (and sometimes 
just a slow ;-)

Linus gave a great talk about this important principle back in 
2001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w