Marco Trotta mrta75@identi.ca
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Sviluppatore informatico e mediattivista. Debianista, Drupalista, Ciclista, Zapatista, in direzione ostinata e contraria come Faber.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-06-27T07:57:32Z
in #Bologna. Tomorrow I'll give a #Debian talk at #hackmeeting c/o #xm24 http://it.hackmeeting.org/Marco Trotta likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-04-13T09:52:12Z
ho ripostato il mio commento, in modo che sia pubblico https://identi.ca/zack/note/mOMD5ppNQ7qiel1kIFv2lwMarco Trotta likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-04-13T09:51:38Z
[ reposting, hoping this time the URL will be publicly accessible ]
I think replying along those lines is falling into a trap.
In a strictly technical sense, Free Software is not *necessarily* better than proprietary software. Arguing against those who claim "see, I told you, Free Software isn't better" is validating the assumption that the whole point of Free Software is being technically better. Arguably, that claim has been part for a very long time of the *Open Source* (!= Free Software for the purpose of my mini-rant here :-)) folklore, and I have always thought that it was a mistake to try to "sell" Free Software that way.
An excellent take on this specific point, way better than mine here, can be found in Mako's essay «When Free Software isn't (practically) better» http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when_free_software_isnt_practically_better.html
Free Software is better because it gives user Freedoms. And that is true no matter how many outstanding security bugs exist in the wild. And no matter how many of them will be exploited for doing evil.
Granted, *some* of those freedoms are useful in fighting security bugs and, all other conditions being equal, they give practical advantages over proprietary software. But, unfortunately, those "other conditions" are rarely equal so it is hard to do side-by-side comparisons.
What we need to answer to analogies between heartbleed and alleged failure in the Free Software model is:
1) it would've been worse if OpenSSL wasn't Free Software. And in fact maybe it *is* worse, in the sense that bugs as severe as heartbleed might exist today in critical proprietary software, and we have no way of knowing
2) *shrug*
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Indeed, it's fortunate that the servers we connect to run free software... at least if flawed proprietary clients connect to them, us free software users aren't affected... if IIS was the norm, we'd be in far way more trouble.
Well.. we can't do a side-by-side comparison because one side is a blackbox with no verifiability or reproducability. So the whole debate is a little surreal. I do think it is important to emphasize that each side is using a different definition of security as well. Only the free software side provides security including security against the software distributor.
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proprietary software contains back doors. how often do they get closed?
La basura: nuestra mayor aportación como especie
Cuenta cancelada at 2014-03-07T15:24:20Z
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Cuenta cancelada at 2014-03-07T12:20:05Z
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Cuenta cancelada at 2014-02-21T12:37:01Z
Bravo, Marco! Coraggio, coraggio e fortuna ...
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Trash
Cuenta cancelada at 2014-01-05T08:29:08Z
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Paz activa
Cuenta cancelada at 2014-01-05T17:27:08Z
Es verdad que me siento escandalizado cada vez que me topo con armas españolas en los olvidados campos de batalla del tercer mundo, y que me avergüenzo de mis representantes políticos.
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A veces...
Cuenta cancelada at 2014-01-03T10:43:52Z
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Renzo Davoli at 2013-11-04T16:39:49Z
#raspibo: giovedi' 7 novembre c'e' la lezione zero del non corso 2.0. Divulgate please la notizia con ogni mezzo.
Annuncio:
http://www.raspibo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Incontro_zero_del_non-corso_2.0
Volantino:
http://www.raspibo.org/wiki/images/c/cf/Volantino2.0.pdf
Call for participation:
http://www.raspibo.org/wiki/index.php?title="call_for_participation"_alla_lezione_zero_2.0Marco Trotta likes this.
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Stefano Zacchiroli at 2013-08-15T23:11:16Z
happy 20th birthday, #debian ! http://bits.debian.org/2013/08/20-birthday-debian.html (and no, it's not hex!)zinayfuzz, Mostafa Roshanavand, rocky, giammi@identi.ca and 21 others likes this.
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Parabéns, Debian, pelos 20 anos - http://br-linux.org/2013/01/parabens-debian-pelos-20-anos.html - Via @Christiano AndersonStefano Zacchiroli at 2013-07-26T13:48:27Z
back in Italy for a few weeks before #DebConf13 … and after 2'000 some km motorbiking
bonus points earned: celebrated my bike's 30'000 km threshold!Marco Trotta, libre likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2013-07-20T22:11:03Z
…and now off for a few days motorbiking in Normandie, see ya!Marco Trotta likes this.
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Oh! Enjoy!!! :)