[email protected] wrote:
But still trusting, and thanks for proving my point - people do not typically audit the software that they install on their computer, even though they can. I have to admit that even I didn't audit every program I got.
Nobody audits all the software they have, regardless of which operating system they're running. Even for people using nothing but Free Software there's far too much Free Software out there to audit every program on anyone's complete system. Consider that most computer users aren't programmers and this means most computer users won't be auditing programs themselves. At most, they'll get someone else they trust to audit software on their behalf.
This strongly favors software freedom to be sure -- the best we can do is to give every computer user the freedoms of Free Software and make available the Free Software they need to do whatever they want to do with a computer. Nonfree software doesn't become ethical just because most computer users can't audit what they're running.
That said, if you have a plan for allowing most computer users to vet Free Software programs without trusting anyone else, I'm guessing we're all interested to learn how that would work.
