Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3270

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hmmm...that sounds like a matter of trust.

And there's no guarantee the bad OSS code was distributed. The bad guy is going to distribute the clean code. Maybe he checks in a single bad file (buttuming they're sophisticated enough to use a versioning system), compiles the program using that version of the file, then deletes it and distributes the clean code.

So I have to ask again - until I get an honest answer - who guarantees the OSS binaries you installed on your precious system were compiled from the clean code?

No one, of course. See, it's plenty OK for you Linux guys to trust any anonymous OSS clown half a world away who has nothing to lose, but you think I shouldn't trust MS, who has everything to lose. That makes you - to put it bluntly - hypocrites and simpletons.

for the record, based on the dealings I've had with them in emails and online, I trust OSS people

There's no such thing - as you know. You just diminished your credibility a little bit. Keep it up and you'll be a 7 or GreyCloud or mlw. And you don't want that.

I doubt that, but if so it's no longer a backdoor.