Why?

True ownership and control of our lives has been subverted. If a government or a company provides software updates for your device, they own your device. They can degrade or disable it at any time. They can collect any data from it.

Their promises to respect boundaries are meaningless, because the fundamental nature of the core incentives of commercial relationships with customers and citizens drift in the long run.

As we increasingly rely on technology to become productive at work and comfortable at home, the degree of our indentured dependency on it grows. The stronger our attachment, the greater is the price that will be extorted from us by the current or future owner of such technology with no regard to prior contract obligations.

Free open-source devices and software are maintained by community volunteers in full transparency of the public eye with full history of all changes. Even when maintainers are bought out, the community is able to start over with a fork of the project in its last free state. We restore the relationship balance with the market and the government by switching over to open-source software for things that are essential for well-being.