Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
There's no problem buying a program. In fact ...
I see that this is a subject on which you have thought long and
deeply.
I have to agree with some of your points. On the issue of trust,
for example, I trust that the open source software that I run is
safe. However I have found that a number of closed source
programs I have installed on my Windows machines included
spyware. And those are the ones I was able to find out about.
There may be many others that I didn't find out about that also
include spyware.
That's not to say that all authors of non-free software are
untrustworthy, but without the source code we can't easily tell
if they are trustworthy.