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libre software
| It's not about privacy, but security.
| yes
| Let's be honest, nearly no one checks the source code, so it's about trust. For example i trust my open source libre firewall software that it does only what it is intended to do. Libre software is more like a proof that you're just coding for fun and that you dont intend to add some shady stuff to your program.
| Only libre/free software can give it's users the freedom not to be monitored. Vendors of proprietary software only can make promises that are hard up to impossible to verify. Buying proprietary software is always buy the pig in a poke.
| >>708940
>nearly no one checks the source code
Yes, nearly no one is still more than no one. Especially if a software is of common intersest (e.g. used in public and eventually democratically organized institutions) it is very important that the sourcecode can be checked independendly.
>so it's about trust
Yeah, but no. We live in capitalism. The only thing you can trust is that everyone will do anything to exploit each other. Everything else is just naive.
| You guys underestimate all the tinfoil hat people who regularly go through other's floss projects trying to find privacy and security issues of any kind. As dumb as it sounds it really works.
Bigger projects such as the Linux kernel regulate themselves by having strict reviewing processes.
The benevolent dictatorship model
also ensures that whoever is going to push that code to the users cares about it and checks it out.
| >>709061
>Bigger projects such as the Linux kernel regulate themselves by having strict reviewing processes.
They also benefit from big companies that rely on it. E.g. netflix has contributed very important security fixes to the linux kernel.
Software shouldn't be a product but a !important! PROVIDER INDEPENDENT service.
| >>709061
>tinfoil hat people
It's sad that people who actually care for basic customer or even human rights become branded as "tinfoil people". Aproaches to put them together with idiots that believe in jewish (finance-)capitalist/communist/socialist/liberal/chemtrail/migration/feminist/muslim/flat-earth conspiracyies is a very, very harmful thing.
| >>709336
I believe words like that have became a safety valve to label ourselves, to look "self aware".
Just like enthusiasts are labeled autists, skepticism is paranoia, being liberal is faggotry and being conservative is hitler.
Am I alone on this?
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| what do you think about open/libre software, is it so necessary for your privacy? is proprietary software all that bad?