> Jochem van Dieten wrote:
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>> They know my opinion about this.
> Do you know if they would value your opinion and take an action on that?
I hope they value my opinion, but I don't think anything will change even if they do.
The decision whether or not to open-source something is very straightforward from an engineering point of view. It doesn't change the functionality of the code, all what happens is that the code can be studied by others. If you have a reasonable belief this studying does not introduce security risks, there really isn't much reason not to release sourcecode.
>From a business point of view, things are very different. There you have issues such as the depreciation of IP, competitors, liability, providing support on the code instead of the application etc. Those are the things that stop corporations from open sourcing their software, and me repeating what everybody knows already about open source does not change any of those arguments.
Jochem
PS Both decompiling and decrypting for the sole purpose of studying the code in order to interface with it is explicitly allowed under Dutch law, even if the licence terms of the software say otherwise:
http://wetten.overheid.nl/cgi-bin/deeplink/law1/title=Auteurswet%201912/article=45m
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