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From: za kAT on 6 Mar 2010 09:12


"The most widely used security protocols, standards, and tools, such as
SSH, AES, and openVPN have all at one point or another become Open-source
software, under the popular security industry ideology derived from
Kerckhoffs' principle of proving the strength of software through public
exposure....LastPass has stayed proprietary over its development."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass

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From: VanguardLH on 7 Mar 2010 00:42
za kAT wrote:

> "The most widely used security protocols, standards, and tools, such as
> SSH, AES, and openVPN have all at one point or another become Open-source
> software, under the popular security industry ideology derived from
> Kerckhoffs' principle of proving the strength of software through public
> exposure....LastPass has stayed proprietary over its development."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass

That doesn't say that *LastPass* is open-source. Read the rest of that wiki
article, like the very next paragraph.

LastPass is freeware, not FOSS. There is no requirement nor even a
reasonable expectation that freeware must also be open-sourceware. I
haven't done a survey but I suspect that vast majority of freeware that I've
ever use or am using is closed code.
From: za kAT on 7 Mar 2010 05:35
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:42:12 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

> za kAT wrote:
>
>> "The most widely used security protocols, standards, and tools, such as
>> SSH, AES, and openVPN have all at one point or another become Open-source
>> software, under the popular security industry ideology derived from
>> Kerckhoffs' principle of proving the strength of software through public
>> exposure....LastPass has stayed proprietary over its development."
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass
>
> That doesn't say that *LastPass* is open-source. Read the rest of that wiki
> article, like the very next paragraph.

Did you read my post?...

"LastPass has stayed proprietary over its development"

? Just a clue...

> LastPass is freeware, not FOSS. There is no requirement nor even a
> reasonable expectation that freeware must also be open-sourceware.

I never said there was.

> I haven't done a survey but I suspect that vast majority of freeware that I've
> ever use or am using is closed code.

I'm losing the will to live here.

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zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat
From: »Q« on 7 Mar 2010 18:21
In <news:Xns9D34378A6EF5Cbearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.247>,
Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote:

> Open source is nice in that people who have the capability and desire
> can modify the code blah blah blah.

Not spelling out the "blah blah blah" part makes it look like you don't
know much about F/LOSS. What are all the other strengths it has
compared to proprietary stuff like LastPass?

From: »Q« on 7 Mar 2010 19:21
In <news:Xns9D34B7FAE864Abearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.247>,
Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote:

> =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= <boxcars(a)gmx.net> wrote in
> news:20100307172152.746f5c7c(a)bellgrove.remarqs.net:
>
> > In <news:Xns9D34378A6EF5Cbearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.247>,
> > Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Open source is nice in that people who have the capability and
> >> desire can modify the code blah blah blah.
> >
> > Not spelling out the "blah blah blah" part makes it look like you
> > don't know much about F/LOSS. What are all the other strengths it
> > has compared to proprietary stuff like LastPass?
>
> Nice troll attempt...

It wasn't a troll attempt, just an attempt to find out if you'd managed
to understand anything about F/LOSS during your ongoing, in-depth
research.

> but to the end-user...nothing.

And so far, the answer continues to be "no, nothing yet".

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