To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Opera is throwing an online 'party' and as part of that a special treat is free registration keys for all platforms for Opera from a page on the party area of the site.
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Member since:"Just out of curiousity, have you looked at the source code for FireFox to see for yourself if it's secure? Most people haven't, and simply take someone else's word for it. So what really is the difference here?"
MOO! BAAAAH!
Cow people and sheep people talk as you do.
The difference is: open source IS looked at
Closed source cannot be looked at
Further explanation would just send cow people/sheep people minds into rages of personal attacks, so I'll keep it at that while the cow people mod this down.
Member since:> MOO! BAAAAH!
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> Cow people and sheep people talk as you do.
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> The difference is: open source IS looked at
> Closed source cannot be looked at
One day you will grow up and stop insulting people for pointing out the fact that the vast majority couldn't read source code if they wanted to 
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Member since:2005-08-11
Hey, let's not insult each other here. I happen to like Open Source, use it all over the place. I'm the kind of guy that chooses the right tool for the job (remember when Linus Torvalds chose BitKeeper, a non-open-source app as a scm?). By the way, I am a programmer and am able to look at the code. But not everybody is. My "mom and pop" certainly aren't, and just have to take my word for what works and is secure, and what isn't.
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2005-08-11
Just out of curiousity, have you looked at the source code for FireFox to see for yourself if it's secure? Most people haven't, and simply take someone else's word for it. So what really is the difference here?