Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-08 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 8 בApril 2007 00:00, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, the probablility in the real world of someone being able to verify the source code is clean is not very large. Few people can actually read source code to the point that a hidden exploit is not present. Even those that

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/04/07, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eastern Eggs -- do you know any big proprietary application without ones? Care to explain how these filter into the code in a tightly controlled environment? Don't make us laugh. Geoff, maybe development process was tightly controlled in 60's

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:46:12PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: I must share with you another story - just last week I talked to a guy who programmed the real-time code in SHDSL cards many years ago. They had very tight CPU and memory constraints but they HAD to put in some easter egg. One of

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-08 Thread Dan Armak
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:53:45PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you make sure that the copy you are running was not

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-08 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Geoffrey S. Mendelson: Marc, do you remember the PC BIOS upgrade you downloaded almost 10 years ago the included in plain text SHEMA YISRAEL A.? I'm sure anyone a few kilometers to the east of us would have loved seeing that. :-) Yep. If I am not mistaken, it was in the BIOS fonts

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-07 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:53:45PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you make sure that the copy you are running was not modified to send your accounting data to some data

FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Shimon Panfil
Hi folks, do somebody know FOSS accounting software recognized in Israel? (or software that produces results close to recognized one) TIA Shimon -- Shimon Panfil = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Ori Idan
Hello I am currently working on such a software. http://drorit.sf.net -- Ori Idan On 4/6/07, Shimon Panfil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, do somebody know FOSS accounting software recognized in Israel? (or software that produces results close to recognized one) TIA Shimon -- Shimon

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:52:24AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I am currently working on such a software. I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you make sure that the copy you are running was not modified to send your accounting data to some data collection site? If you

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Ori Idan
On 4/6/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:52:24AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I am currently working on such a software. I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you make sure that the copy you are running was not modified to

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Lior Kaplan
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:52:24AM +0300, Ori Idan wrote: I am currently working on such a software. I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you make sure that the copy you are running was not modified to send your accounting data to

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Dan Armak
On Friday 06 April 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I have a philosophical question. With open source software how do you make sure that the copy you are running was not modified to send your accounting data to some data collection site? You seem to be implying that there's a way to do this

Re: FOSS accounting software

2007-04-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/04/07, Dan Armak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if you don't trust your compiler to build correct code, or your distro's packaging process to catch backdoors, then how can you trust your libc or kernel? It's a lot bigger problem than whether some accounting software is duly certified.