[Fsf-friends] Continuation....of Basics......

[Anurag]

Sriharsha Vedurmudi wrote:

> 3. Will the developers with malicious intent not play around with free 
> software and trick many unsuspecting people into loading the software 
> (that has been maliciously modified by them), therby compromising 
> heavily on the security of the companies confidential data. How is 
> this countered?


Agreed, you have the source code to modify it, and maybe add malicious 
things... but who is going to use package distributed by you... i may 
not trust you and insist on using the package distributed by its 
original author... You can't remove name of its original author from it...

> PS: I never know till date the expansion of GNU (ya, I've been told 
> its GNU Not Free, but what that first word GNU stands for is unknown. 
> Is it proprietary? :-) )


GNU = GNU's Not Unix... sometime visit  < www.gnu.org >

-Anurag

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