Re: GPL Question

[rjack]

David Kastrup wrote:
> rjack <danw6144@insightbb.com> writes:
>
> > Sounds like a wonderful idea. Keeping the source code and protocols
> > open for all to examine will be the perfect challenge to every
> > malicious hacker on the planet to see who can disrupt your
> > co-operative financial accounting system in 0.001 seconds or less.
>
> Windows' security track record does not exactly convince one of closed
> source's inherent superiority in this regard.

It doesn't matter what kind of programming model is being used on a 
network that is open to a few hundred million computers. Attempting to 
run a network of financial servers and clients on an open internet is folly.

Regards,
rjack

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