Software you can't see the source-code for is like food they won't let you see the ingredients list for.It's their intellectual property. My company won't tell people precisely what's in our products either. If we did we'd be out of business...and our replacements wouldn't be Americans.
Our brains, ingenuity, and creativity give Americans advantages over the rest of the world, with its cheap labor and raw materials. We're insane if we gut the laws that allow us to protect our intellectual property.
-Eric
Absolutely.
And you do agree that your customers have no way of knowing what, if any, really bad things are hidden in the software?
A company could build in all sorts of nasty things, either on purpose or on accident, agreed?
So I repeat -- software you can't review the source-code for is like a sausage that they refuse to tell you what meat is in it.