* <<FCS.0842>> Why Free Software?

Because there is no governance.  There is no domestic legislation and
there are no international treaties that limit what software vendors
and online service providers can do with private information.
*None*.  And our *lives* are lived through internetworked software
– our business lives, our family lives, public lives and private
lives, everything we read, write, buy, sell, watch, record, speak, or
sing – it's *all* transmuted through software, and transmissible to
anyone, anywhere, invisibly.

So, who do you trust?  Do you trust corporations, whose only honest
motive is generating investor profit, and whose software is a "black
box" which no one is allowed to analyse? Or a bunch of hackers, whose
code is all out in the open, available for scrutiny by any interested
party? You might prefer a third option, but this is what you've got.

So choose.

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