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That argument would be all great and all, if the counter example of open source didn't exist. Maybe I'm out of line here, but I think it's possible to write software without making it defective by design.

Yeah, I had to write that sentence a few times because otherwise it was kind of cancelled out by FOSS. There are a lot of scenarios where there just isn't a suitable FOSS package though, nor is their likely to be because it's too domain specific or inherently complex. So I don't think it's the universal panacea that many suggest (not to mention it rather relies on generous donations by developers, many of whom are paid to develop on commercial software during working hours). There's also a bunch of FOSS applications like OpenOffice that really only exist because they stemmed from an initial commercial offering that was end of lined, which simply wouldn't exist if there were no ability to fund the initial offering.