From: overthefalls@opengroupware.ch
To: Julian Daich <julian.daich@freecomputerlabs.org>
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Free software is not trusted software
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 22:34:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8495652705809f5dc630828e8c7c0694@opengroupware.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e7e038a-213d-9ffb-eec3-6d03503ff00f@freecomputerlabs.org>
On 2019-01-27 12:40, Julian Daich wrote:
> El 27/1/19 a las 0:35, bill-auger escribió:
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:17:39 +0100 Julian wrote:
>>> El 21/1/19 a las 4:02, bill-auger escribió:
>>>> one reviewer for each 10,000 to 100,000 software projects;
>>>
>>> So it will be worth to advice users.
>>> There can be many ways to rank software trustability.
>>
>> that is missing my point
>
> It is just thinking different.
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:17:39 +0100 Julian wrote:
>>> I mentioned the ranking solution because it is worth for me and also
>>> for other big and skilled parties.
>>
>> i find the idea of ranking software to be inappropriate and
>> counter-productive to any common goal -
>
> Wikipedia ranks pages all the time and they are doing well. As you
> pointed before most of the software will not be reviewed unless there
> is
> a real interect on checking it.
>
> Best,
>
> Julian
>
> unless that goal is to
>> shame people - software development is not a sport - no one needs to
>> keep score - such rankings could only lead to some projects optimizing
>> for the "score" as to snowball it into the "leader" position; while
>> others who behave more sincerely by focusing on the work rather than
>> the vague prescriptions of some external committee, and perhaps
>> ranking
>> lower for that reason, would be starved for the attention that they
>> deserve; because everyone who puts their faith in the ranking system
>> would view them as hopelessly untrustworthy, simply for not playing
>> "the game" as the committee prescribes
>>
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Sorry to butt in but, I don't know of anyone that looks at wikipedia
page rankings to decide the security or privacy respecting attributes of
that page, so I don't think that comparison has any merit or relevance
here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-17 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 14:09 Free software is not trusted software Lyberta
2019-01-16 17:00 ` Todd Weaver
2019-01-16 20:07 ` Caleb Herbert
2019-01-16 22:21 ` bill-auger
2019-01-16 22:57 ` bill-auger
2019-01-16 23:12 ` Leah Rowe
2019-01-17 1:01 ` bill-auger
2019-01-17 10:52 ` Thomas Harding
2019-02-25 20:44 ` Taiidan
2019-02-26 0:15 ` overthefalls
2019-01-17 3:44 ` J.B. Nicholson
2019-01-19 10:41 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-19 14:34 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-20 18:01 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-20 20:36 ` bill-auger
2019-01-20 22:54 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-21 3:02 ` bill-auger
2019-01-22 10:07 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-23 3:48 ` bill-auger
2019-01-26 21:17 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-26 23:35 ` bill-auger
2019-01-27 1:07 ` bill-auger
2019-01-27 19:51 ` Julian Daich
2019-01-28 3:15 ` bill-auger
2019-01-27 19:40 ` Julian Daich
2019-02-17 5:34 ` overthefalls [this message]
2019-01-21 8:05 ` Andrew Luke Nesbit
2019-01-21 22:45 ` bill-auger
2019-01-22 9:34 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-19 22:01 ` bill-auger
2019-01-20 18:06 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-19 22:37 ` al3xu5 / dotcommon
2019-01-20 17:09 ` Lyberta
2019-01-20 18:16 ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2019-01-23 19:51 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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