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05.04.2006 - Don't Put That In Your Mouth, You Don't Know Where It's Bee
<p>One of the major objections to open source is that nobody's responsible for the code. Enterprise users need to be sure that the software they're deploying is secure; the way they do that for proprietary code is to bind the authors with contracts, requiring the authors to guarantee that the code has been reviewed for security. But you can't do that with open source, because anyone can contribute to open source, and, ultimately, there's no single party who can be held responsible for the software's security. You don't know where it's been. </p>
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