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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security (seirdy.one)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.