> The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that This is the sad

> The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that This is the sad truth. Some of these projects are just WAY too big for anyone to meaningfully digest what's happening. Chromium or Android? That's cool that their open, but they could just leave huge swathes of unobscured, liberally commented code - detailing how they're ravaging the host machine or sending deeply private telemetry home to Google and 99% of users would be none the wiser. All while being "open". You could liken it to those 100 page ToS agreements most people just click "accept" to and never read. There could literally be anything in there, and even if you had the motivation to try and peruse it, the odds are definitely NOT in your favor.