proprietary (no source code included) s/w is like supermarket packaged goods without ingredients label. And you know how bad that would be.

It's not that everybody reads the list of ingredients, but that *anybody* could, & that organisations can randomly sample to confirm the list adds up.

We need this for software just as much as food:

- 20% evil, sends data to Google
- 38% screwed, displays adware based on that data
- 17% previous purchases shared with Amazon
- 26% audio history to Apple

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@dch 20+38+17+26 = 101...my OCD...

Not all closed source software is bad, sometimes developers just don't want to be kanged, and I don't think that you can really blame then for that given the track record of the tech community.

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