This is another area where I prefer Raymond's open-source consequentialism to Stallman's free software deontology. Raymond actually takes the time to evaluate t

This is another area where I prefer Raymond's open-source consequentialism to Stallman's free software deontology. Raymond actually takes the time to evaluate the harms (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4371 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4371) we anticipate from closed source software, and shows why we can expect a greater harm from OS or productivity software than from games or elevator firmware.