Warp wrote:

>   There are other advantages too, mainly related to trustworthiness.
> Because the source code is open for anyone to examine, it's less likely
> that it will contain undocumented parts which do something the user might
> not want it to do, such as compromising his privacy without his consent.

Agreed.

>   Another advantage is that OSS is often developed by several independent
> parties which are not driving their own personal gain with the project,
> something that is the rule with proprietary commercial software. OSS is
> user-oriented, doing what benefits the users the most.

Not entirely true.

Counter-example: http://www.xkcd.com/619/

OSS tends to be developer-oriented, not customer-oriented. Granted, that 
can be much better than company-oriented though. ;-) Since the 
developers are users too, they aren't going to deliberately try to screw 
themselves...

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