Red Hat: Hi here’s some tools we made, you can see how every single one of them works in full detail and you can modify them as you see fit, and distribute modified copies.
Microsoft: Hi we peddle proprietary spyware and we aren’t even secretive about it.
Basically the same thing?
Also systemd rocks, and the kernel is widely audited OSS, Microsoft will have a very hard time sneaking in anything malicious.
“Everyone can see the code” does not mean that everyone understands what’s going on, by the way. The X server had had a security hole for 23 years just a while ago. Could it be that “it’s OSS” and “many people read and understand what’s going on” are not the same thing?
The fact that software contains vulnerabilities is not the same as the fact that the software has been specifically designed to monitor your activities.
I don’t understand what your point is, seems like you’re trying to say that the difference in the surveillance performed by Microsoft and the one performed by Linux is irrelevant.
Red Hat: Hi here’s some tools we made, you can see how every single one of them works in full detail and you can modify them as you see fit, and distribute modified copies.
Microsoft: Hi we peddle proprietary spyware and we aren’t even secretive about it.
Basically the same thing?
Also systemd rocks, and the kernel is widely audited OSS, Microsoft will have a very hard time sneaking in anything malicious.
I disagree.
Minus the proprietary blobs, that is.
“Everyone can see the code” does not mean that everyone understands what’s going on, by the way. The X server had had a security hole for 23 years just a while ago. Could it be that “it’s OSS” and “many people read and understand what’s going on” are not the same thing?
The fact that software contains vulnerabilities is not the same as the fact that the software has been specifically designed to monitor your activities. I don’t understand what your point is, seems like you’re trying to say that the difference in the surveillance performed by Microsoft and the one performed by Linux is irrelevant.