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Re:Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden l... by throwit1979 on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:08AM (#6032964)
What? Open source in a cloud service stack means that if the NSA thugs show up and order you to insert intercepts into your software on pain of being "disappeared", it's far EASIER to change the source and recompile than it is with proprietary software.

rimantas is referring to using open source in a cloud service, not authoring and distributing it.

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