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Zerush wrote

ImageMagick is a fine app, but IrfanView is way better, IrfanView even can substitute a Video or music player, not only images, Even Nomacs is better than ImageMagick.

Yes, you can fork an disatended FOSS, if you are capable to do that. Maybe in a small app you can, if you are a dev, but in more complex apps with hyndreds of thouusends of lines, you need a teem with severral devs to do this.

A normal user can't. He don't even read the TOS and PP of a soft and less thousends of lines of the code to prove that it works without problems,

Although Windows, as the most used OS is also the most atacked, Malware exist also in Linux, with the difference that Windows has a catalogue of dozends of excellent AV, and Linux ? The placebo ClamAV? Don't trust on this, until now Linux are relative secure, because hackers mainly atacks Windows and not so Linux as minority OS, but this is currently changing, due to the increment amount of servers which use Linux.

Every OS can be a victim of Malware, more in these moments in a war between east and west, They don't fight only with guns and tanks, also the cyberspace is a battleground between corresponding secret services since years, with the user in the middle. In every OS is advisable to check well what you download, the biggest security hole is the user himself. As I say, don't trust your own shadow in the web.

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