Sriharsha Vedurmudi wrote:
- 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