trusting open source = reflexive systems (Score 1)

I (Basile S.) do agree with the poster. I do not claim that closed source is better. We all know it is worse (all things being equal). What is needed is more than OpenSource: it is reflexive systems. See www.tunes.org for more. Informally and in brief, a reflexive system knows about itself and can enhance, reason, prove, and check itself (or parts of it). I am convinced that reflexive system are the next step. They will supersede open source systems. (Actually, complete open source systems -such as a fully open, source form, Linux distributions- are already reflexive in an ill and poorly defined way, and perhaps some old Smalltalk or Lisp machines also where reflexive) (Proof-carrying code, a la Peter Lee, are also somehow partly reflexive). The difficult part is doing a full reflexive system. This mostly means start from scratch. Regards