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You're right. Too many thoughts compressed into "modern *nix releases". So many of these things are spectrums vs. absolutes. Advantages and disadvantages complement one other. I still believe open-ness helps counter many of the problems, even if it exposes them earlier.
It's hard to put this into quick replies without starting yet another analysis. Helps feed OS religions, no? Where would we be without... For me, these days, it's become use what works, for the task and customer, and keep it working. More time for something fun away from electrons.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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