Your standard of “personal responsibility” includes the ability to audit code. I assume that you’re just irresponsible if a carmaker sells you a dangerous vehicle, because you don’t know how to detect the flaw? Doctors can just talk to you without consideration for your ignorance, because your failure to attend medical school represents your irresponsibility? If you can’t parse all of changing EULA’s in your life, you’re just irresponsible?
What’s obvious to you in your very limited field of expertise is not obvious to everyone. You shouldn’t insult everyone who isn’t a programmer by equating that narrow expertise with personal responsibility. I wouldn’t assume that your inability to understand a conversation between two surgeons meant that it was acceptable to harvest your organs.
You are making it sound like I argued against standards, that's not the case. Yes, ability to audit the code is paramount, and I want to go that direction for everything. We are merging with our creations, people have their noses so far in their phones they are starting to head mount and have it overlay their field of view. Without source access, we wont even be able to check if our own experiences are real.
Relying on experts to audit things is obvious and correct, but they must be "anyone", not just a select few that get to see the details. Maybe I am not qualified to evaluate something, but that is never a reason to prevent me from looking at the same information the experts have, in fact that's how those experts came to be.
The fact that some people don't care is irrelevant. They get tricked, and learn. Consider how many people are re-evaluating what FB even _is_ right now.
Much as I appreciate you responding to only the first sentence of my reply, I’m going to have to point out that your FOSS rant is only tangentially related to what I said, mate.
What’s obvious to you in your very limited field of expertise is not obvious to everyone. You shouldn’t insult everyone who isn’t a programmer by equating that narrow expertise with personal responsibility. I wouldn’t assume that your inability to understand a conversation between two surgeons meant that it was acceptable to harvest your organs.