Open Source and Web Based Services

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Originally uploaded by dcdan.

One of the major tenets of the Open Source Software movement is that you can say "I'm only running code where I can see the source" and there are many within that movement who stick with that through thick and thin, but what happens when people start relying more on web based services. There are a lot of OSS people who use web based services accounts and the recent fix from Google got me thinking about it. Sure Google Desktop and IE aren't OSS but say they were, you would have still been able to see the all of the source but still would have been screwed in the long wrong despite having all of the code "running on your computer"