[Adium-devl] Adium's feature list

[Chris Forsythe]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net>  
wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Perhaps adding some of this information to qualify os as a feature  
would be beneficial?


> -Evan
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