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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:57:56 -0800
From:      Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Bulk] Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it?
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On Feb 17, 2015 7:45 PM, "jd1008" <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 02/17/2015 04:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:24:16 -0700, jd1008 wrote:
>>>
>>> A people's tribunal of highly capable software and hardware engineers
>>> is desperately needed to look into the source codes of all SW and HW
>>> designs and implementations - including the compilers and assemblers.
>>
>> We are still free to write Assembler opcode using an hex editor, that
>> way nothing could go wrong. When I started, I didn't write opcode
>> using an hex editor, but I used an Assmbler editor that didn't provide
>> macros, this editor was close to an hex editor. There was no way to
>> correct something by inserting code.
>> _________________________________________
>
> I am not sure I understand how a hex editor would
> insure that nothing could go wrong.
> But my point is that currently, is not all open source
> developed for free? So, an international tribunal of
> developers would indeed unearth quite a lot of code
> that would turn out to be suspicious at best.
>
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Hmm open source is not "always" developed for free, I dont have stats handy
but take a look at the source headers of FreeBSD sometime to see where the
open source comes from. its more likely an accurate statement that open
source is "rarely" developed for free.

Waitman



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