In message <E1AYSbz-0005KY-00@alva.home>, you write: 

-> Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> wrote:
-> > Wojciech Puchar [Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:40:20AM +0100]:
-> > > i rather prefer source modules than unknown code.
-> > 
-> > You read all the sources you compile and use, line by line, right?
-> 
-> 
-> I cannot speak for Wojchiech, but maybe I can explain why many people
-> strongly prefer using open source software:
-> 
-> When I run code written by someone else on my computer, I am turning
-> my computer and all the state it contains (which I do value) over to
-> the (in)competence and intent (malicious or benevolent) of the code's
-> author.  Given that, I *much* prefer to run code that is open for peer
-> review rather than to run code that is withheld from peer review.

Totally agreed...  OTOH, be aware that you were replying to the troll who
was kidnapping a thread about modularizing the NetBSD kernel by demand-
loading drivers vs.  linking them into the kenrel statically.  The whole
"i rather prefer source modules than unknown code" was just a red-herring.

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
  We are all worms.  But I do believe I am a glowworm.  -- Winston Churchill