On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, dn via Python-list wrote:
Companies such as Microsoft and Oracle (plus, plus, ...) do not allow just-anyone to analyse their source-code - whereas 'open source' is available for analysis, by definition! An easy 'target' for shallow analysis?
Looks bass-ackwards to me. That's the same argument made by proprietary companies (especially Micro$oft) in the early 1990s. What falsifies the writer's argument is all the malware that's affected Windoze over the past couple of decades compared to F/OSS OSes and applications. Sigh. Fake news hits the software industry. Carpe weekend, Rich -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list