[Adium-devl] Adium's feature list

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On 2009-01-24, at 01:06, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>> On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com> wrote:
>>> On 2009-01-23, at 18:34, Robert Vehse wrote:
>>>> - Free and Open Source
>>
>> Since when is open source a feature?
>
> Yeah, I thought of mentioning that, but it must have slipped my  
> mind. ☺

Open source most definitely is a feature.  Some people care about  
software being open source for its own sake. Others are interested in  
using programs they can potentially modify, either contributing back  
or making changes for themselves. Open source promises transparency -  
you can check what the program is doing and how ("is my password being  
sent to somewhere? What about my personal information?"), or if you  
can't yourself, you can assume (usually correctly) that someone else  
has. And so on. Two words convey a whole lot of meaning.

-Evan
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