Did you fabricate that CPU? Did you write that compiler? You gotta trust someone at some point. You can either trust someone because you give them money and it's theoretically not in their interest to screw you (lol) or because they make an effort to be transparent and others (maybe you, maybe not) can verify their claims about what the software is.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

It usually boils down to this, something can be strictly better but not perfect.

The ability to audit the code is usually strictly better than closed source. Though I'm sure an argument could be made about exposing the code base to bad actors I generally think it's a worthy trade off.