Fears of Free Software

Lack of control: “Someone might use it for something bad.”

You'll benefit from every improvement, every bug fix they make. Non-discrimination is central to the philosophy of freedom of free software for reasons.

Lack of control: “forking.”

If company X has best solution, nobody will “fork” their software. If the company is not willing to represent the needs of the social actors within the network, this lets the actors define the terms outside of the company.