I'm 20/13 vision in both eyes and can already spot pixellation in the iPhone 4S display, at arms length.
The Iphone 4s has retina display. For a retina display to work its' magic, you need to hold it at a typical viewing angle. In short, you're holding it wrong
And is this CEO a Confucianist?
maybe not... Perhaps he's... confused
Assuming you have the expertise and resources to vet every single commit made to the source tree. The fact that the code could be audited doesn't mean that it is, and therefore is no protection against a well-funded state-sponsored attack to insert subtle weaknesses in the code that could be exploited by a sophisticated methodology known only to the organization that created the patches.
This idea was recently covered by Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD dev) in his essay, "More Encryption Is Not the Solution"
Sure, but at least you have that option, you can outsource the expertise if you really want to. With proprietary software, you stuck with the binary as your only option, even when you have the resource to review the code
Assuming that you can trust all that NSA (SELinux) code that's in Linux. Fun fact: RHEL is preferred Linux operating system of surveillance state! Look it up.
well, you can always review the code if you want/need to.
HP's servers also came with cheap off-brand FC HBAs that wouldn't play nice on the customer's SAN. Good God, crappy FC hardware that can't interoperate with other vendor's equipment was solved by QLogic et al a fucking decade ago.
All of our Proliant and Integrity servers came with either Qlogic or Emulex HBAs. Of course, our last HP purchases was back in 2008
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
