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by whatshisface 1058 days ago
>Don’t think it’s much different to use a closed source application than it is to use an open source app that somebody else compiled and put into your systems package repository.

What about the fact that in the case of the open source application, there are people not directly motivated to not mention problems for the good of the company, with the ability to look at the source code?