I find people who agree with me for the wrong reasons to be more problematic than people who simply disagree with me. After writing a lot about why free software is important, I needed to clarify that there are good and bad reasons for supporting it.
You can audit the security of proprietary software quite thoroughly; source code isn’t a necessary or sufficient precondition for a particular software implementation to be considered secure.
Great article! Also, thanks a lot for adding the additional arguments from this thread - Makes it much better.
Not just this thread, but the rest of Fedi, IRC, my own email, and Matrix too. My posts get atl 20% longer after I share them.