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