tldr (from 5,277 words): Users are far more concerned with protection against harms closed-source software may inflict, but access to that source code is a terr

tldr (from 5,277 words): Users are far more concerned with protection against harms closed-source software may inflict, but access to that source code is a terrible way of preventing those harms. Thus free software advocates are barking up the wrong tree when they condemn closed-source as acts of political tyranny. editorial 1: What do you care what reasons the free software dorks employ? editorial 2: Verbosity is an existential threat.