- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 12 Jul 2013 21:52:41 +0200
- To: "Mark Watson" <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Cc: "Norbert Bollow" <nb@bollow.ch>, "Karl Dubost" <karl@la-grange.net>, "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Mark Watson: > Just to re-iterate, the intention is that the closed software comes > from, or is at least well understood by, your browser implementor or > your OS implementor. I believe you have bigger problems if you don't > trust either of those. One of the reasons for Open Source software is that one does not need to trust an implementer. > Furthermore, you have choices, which through > the operation of competition pushes these vendors towards honesty and > transparency. That "competition" obviously did not prevent companies from acting in a dishonest and intransparent way and collaborating with the NSA. Cheers, Andreas
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