Am 23. Jul, 2010 schwätzte keith smith so:
> It is great the Government is using some open source / free software. And they also released some into the public domain is great.
>
> I would also offer a word of caution - make sure any software the government released is free from any type of reporting code or a back door.
The same as code from anyone else :).
With Free Software we can do that type of validation. Proprietary software
customers are depending on the company putting customer priorities higher
than company priorities.
ciao,
der.hans
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