Why do evil programmers love open source software?

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[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Open-source, like "science" and "socialism" and countless other things and concepts is neither good nor bad.

Being open folks can catch the bad guys if you can analyze their code.

Being open means the bad guys (and corporations) get free code to build with. They get all the advantages of the open code PLUS whatever bullshit they add on.

they can just tell the moronic masses that it has "deep architectural flaws", and they will believe them.

Unless other folks negate that nonsense. Like much in our world, reputation and authenticity build legitimacy - and often it's for sale.