>>83
I don't think the food company analogy holds, using proprietary software would then be (in your analogy) akin to eating food that it's illegal to try to find out the contents of.
I would never eat food that someone said "hey if you try to figure out what's in this we're gonna sue you", it would just make me wonder what kind of horrible things are in there.
>>89
If you had them making guarantees and those guarantees being controlled by a government entity to see that they were doing what they're supposed to be doing would be a major step up from the situation of today, but only if we are in a position where we can always trust the government and the company.
>>87
If you have purchased some free software from a company then you can prove it's doing what it's supposed to be doing all by yourself, without any dependency on the company.