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Today's version: https://www.datapacrat.com/temp/Cryo Revival Preferences - draft 0.1.3.txt

The change: Added new paragraph:

There is no such thing as being able to have 100% certainty that a piece of software is without flaws or errors. One of the few methods for detecting a large proportion of any program's is to allow many people, with all their varied perspectives and skills, to examine it, by proclaiming that the program is free and open source and releasing both the source code and binaries for inspection. Without that strategy, not only are bugs much ... (read more)