Comment Nothing's changed (Score 2) 265
Free software is about ideology. About the availability of source code and the permission to examine, modify and redistribute it. It doesn't mean better security or indeed better by any quality metric, and that's not the point. Much like freedom of speech: it's important even if I never say or write anything and it doesn't make everyone Shakespeare either.
Posted from my Windows computer btw; I think there is value in software freedom, but I use what best meets my current needs and wants, and encourage others to do so too.