The Open Source approach has worked so well because people are at complete liberty to build on existing ideas and existing work, *not* because users are supposed to audit the code they're running. Almost no one does that, but a few do, and sometimes they decide to take what does work and throw out what doesn't. In FLOSS this can happen faster and with greater frequency than with IP-encumbered code. Whether you have faith in it or not, it works.

It's going to take more PR than this to gloss over the forced abortions, religious persecution, torture, and the slaughter of the homeless.