> We should stop using open source and only buy American vendor products! Yeah, good luck with that. This isn't a good take. This presents proprietary software

> We should stop using open source and only buy American vendor products! Yeah, good luck with that. This isn't a good take. This presents proprietary software as offering superior assurances against backdoors, if only it were practical to completely avoid Free and Open Source software. The truth is approximately the opposite: code being Free and Open Source should be considered a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one, for resisting backdoors. > We should start funding every open source project! Yeah, good luck with that.. I’ll start saving for my trip to Mars. This kind of defeatism is unhelpful.