Richard and all,
Open source software for some uses does provide for some
utility. By a opposite token, open source software for other
uses is an inhearent privacy and security risk for obvious reasons
so indeed such also misses the point. I am in favor of any Good
free software, but not a proponent of all software being free of
course. Free software is the choice of the creator, not of the
potential user.
Richard Stallman wrote:
I have never argued in favor of open source software.
I am a free software activist.
(See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.)
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