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Yeah, god forbid if the public has access to source code of critical systems that the country relies upon to run critical infrastructure like oil pipelines.

We might loose any respect for people in charge whatsoever.




Just like all the transparency from all the other gov agencies right?

And I think the discussion is about private businesses not some forced open source ideal you seem to have conjured up.


It is your private business freemarket ideal when half the country comes to a standstill because the oil pipeline runs on windows XP or some shit?


Are you implying that Windows XP needs security reviews now? Or that regulated energy markets make Windows XP? You lost me with any sort of relevancy there. As I understand it, the topic is about software mfgs. Did you just want to throw some freemarket attack (while not using a freemarket example)?




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