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Does he think that downloading and changing the code for himself will magically change it on your system too?
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@AlgoRythm
More likely he's bought into the corporate profit and security in obscurity train of thoughts. Libertarianism-as-code. -
On your own system, you can, sure
On git-hub/lab/whatever, sure, if your pull request gets accepted.
On someone else's system: nope. -
jschmold845yThis confused the hell out of me until I read it like:
"Why would you ever use Open Source? ..."
Now I get the facepalm
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