@mdhughes @SuperDicq
> the source is useless to the end user,
Mate, the ability to configure software is already useless to them as only 1/10 person looks and understand them. The only people real users concerned by this are people working in the field, be it repair tech or developers. If you close it for anyone you also close the ability of the market to generate companies/employees.
Thus creating monopolies to the people who made the software/hardware.

And I'm not mentioning public transparency for critical task like for example proprietary voting machines which have been rigged over and over each time. Even in the recent US election the machines were confirmed to be rigged.

>they'll file a bug report or just delete the program.
>they'll file a bug report
>delete the program.
:OMEGALUL: oh boy :kekw: sorry I can't stop laughing. How much time did you work with normies ? I've been doing so for two decades, and only 1/10 people actually delete software and 0/10 actually files bug report.

>Linux security has shown repeatedly, nobody wants to read source.
The main thing that the FLOSS world has shown is that we don't have enough man power, that's it's hard as hell to create companies when you're restrained by manufacturers, and that proprietary software always ends up as legal malware.