Also, there's this: The point of the free software movement is that proprietary software strips the user of control.This was raised by Jonas in the thread about proprietary software, but it is a completely different topic, so I'm starting this thread about it: "we also don't do negative campaigning overall. We tell people they should use Free Software; we don't tell them what software they should not be using." The reality is, many sites and software vendors deceive users with a promise of security. E.g. when a user accesses Gmail, they see the padlock icon in their browser, so doesn't that mean Gmail is secure? If Gmail is secure and free software is secure, the user may ask why make the effort to change to free software?