While source code is critical for user autonomy, it isn't required to evaluate software security or understand run-time behavior.

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.

    • SeirdyOP
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      3 years ago

      You’re not the first person to ask, which is why I updated the post to expand the acronym in the first sentence. Diff.

    • Jama
      3·
      3 years ago

      Free Libre Open Source Software, since the word “free” is often misunderstood