I can imagine how that can be benefit; it'd allow for public auditing of the code.
Problem is, if you let everyone see it, you let EVERYONE see it -- even the people who will take a look at it and figure out how to compromise the bot.
On 1/7/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
James Hare wrote:
Automation is good, because people are lazy.
(Don't believe me? Count the number of project-space shortcuts there
are.)
We should just *try* this -- maybe then people will get over this
phobia.
I still think the code needs to be widely available.
-Jeff
-- Name: Jeff Raymond E-mail: jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com WWW: http://www.internationalhouseofbacon.com IM: badlydrawnjeff Quote: "As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else." - Sen. Rick Santorum on the war in Iraq.
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