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.

  • seb
    4·
    3 years ago

    Great article! Also, thanks a lot for adding the additional arguments from this thread - Makes it much better.

    • SeirdyOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      Not just this thread, but the rest of Fedi, IRC, my own email, and Matrix too. My posts get atl 20% longer after I share them.