On 11 Jun 18  00:48:08, Benny Pedersen said the following to Roger Nelson:   
      
   BP>  RN> You still have X, Y, Z and a host of other options.  (-:   
   BP>    
   BP> opensource is nice :)   
      
   A wise man told me "I'm afraid now this is a knee-jerk response in a way you   
   may not like to hear".   
      
   I am seriously so sick to death of what I believe is the good-majority of    
   Linux techies having this unquestionable God-like devotion to that bum   
   and absolute horror of a human being, toenail-clipping-eating Richard   
   Stallman, GNU, "Free-is-best and commercial-software-be-damned" mentality.   
      
   For years as a Fido developer I have had the pleasure of receiving Echomail,    
   Netmail and Internet email about why D'Bridge is not open source. And when I   
   state my logical reasons why, most of the time I am looked upon as an idiot   
   because I don't publish source code like Mystic, HPT and Synchronet.   
      
   All three of those programs are very nice, but have had the exact same    
   problems as closed-source mailers, tossers, BBS software etc. If the code is    
   open source, shouldn't there be such a huge crowd of people working to fix it?   
      
   For every Linux techie that told me over the years that open-source is more   
   trustworthy and secure and Windows is garbage... I ask them if they have   
   personally studied and reviewed the Linux kernal source. Nope. Have they   
   studied the code for Firefox? Nope. What about the code for all of your the   
   device drivers? Cue to the crickets chirping. So you have "to trust it".   
      
   Now I'm aware of the Windows-10 situation, telemetry, all of that... no I    
   don't like it and no I do not run Windows 10.   
      
   But if Windows is such crap, how come its been many years now and Linux still   
   is not Desktop ready? Why is the focus on adding useless hated things like   
   SystemD, Selinux and Gnome 3?   
      
   If Microsoft is such a big bad evil corporation, does that mean that Apple,    
   Google, Facebook and other open-source fanatical companies get a free pass?   
      
   I notice Linux techies seem to give their OS a free pass... CONSTANTLY. Even   
   with serious bugs and vulnerabilities like SSL, Heartbleed, the freaking   
   "beep" command insecurity... to say nothing about buggy device drivers.   
      
   Sorry Benny, I know you post in good fun, and I know I'm fair game but every   
   time I see another yay-for-open-source post its just... cringeworthy.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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