One would wonder... (Score 1)

Where he gets his source from? SCO internal memo regarding the evilness of Open Source?

The way I look at it, nothing is hackerproof. If there is a way to engineer something, there is always another way to reverse engineer it, whether or not it actually get you back from Z to A is another story. From a security point of view, whether a piece of software is open source doesn't make the software any more or less secure. It is an indication of how much thrill a hacker could get out of hacking it.

Closed source development gives you a false sense of security. It is hard to imagine how secured a piece of software could be when it is coded by a trusted 7-men team (let's take a managable small integer as an example). Conversely, open source allows public peer review. It can ensure that the software developed is well tested and hacked before it goes into production use. In addition to that, governments could always hire security experts to audit the code, as they should even with closed soft counterparts.

The fear of open source could actually be political as well. We all know that in a capitalist world, nothing ever is open or free (although of course the politicians would tell you otherwise). And suddenly, you have these people giving stuff away for free -- pretty much like an act of communism where stuffs are shared around without regard of making a profit -- some people would of course scream, because the reason why the care about the technology is mostly for the profit they're getting out of it. And some others are hired to scream. Russell Jones seems to be one of those.