Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To : Andre Robitaille
From : Jas Hud
Date : Mon May 09 2022 07:05 am
|03Quoting message from |11Andre Robitaille |03to |11Nick Andre
|03on |1106 May 22 09:17:17|03.
AR> NA> It likely stems from the same strawman argument that if its open-sour
AR> NA> its somehow "better" or "more secure". You see this all the time with
AR> NA> Linux fanatics and they move the goalposts when asked if they will
AR> NA> personally audit all 250,000+ lines of that Linux kernel looking for
AR> NA> exploits.
AR>
AR> That's kind of a strawman too. Improving things by them being open source
AR> doesn't have to mean auditing every line of code.
AR>
AR> I've personally submitted a few Synchronet issues because of oddities in t
AR> code that were then patched.
AR>
synchronet has evolved into having an ideal community just by having it open.
it's because rob is a good project manager. he takes people's feedback.
some people have great ideas. some people are great at testing and finding
issues. some people are good programmers. some people are only good at
fixing other people's code. these reasons are why it has worked out so well
for so long.
... How come this jacket they gave me doesn't have sleeves?
