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Re: [LUG] Another example of open vs closed source

 


On Apr 21, 2013 2:47 PM, "Henry Bremridge" wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213219
>
> In short if you do not know what the program does then how can you make a valid
> conclusion

I think this has little to do with open or closed source. It would have been had there been some bug in Excel that had produced the wrong results, but it was just someone using Excel incorrectly. Could have happened to LibreOffice as well. Or to someone using pen and paper.

If you want to draw an open source-related conclusion from it, it's good to keep in mind that the paper itself, including the sources it used, was publicly available. Yet it took people years to spot the mistakes. So the fact that something is open source doesn't mean it will be without errors, or that these errors will be spotted easily.

Martijn

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