open-source software /tends/ to have fewer, less severe, and shorter-lasting exploitable bugs than closed-source software
On the basis of this "tends" you make a rather drastic request to NOT revive you if you'll be running on top of some closed-source layer.
Not to mention that you're assuming that "open-source" and "closed-source" concepts will still make sense in that high-tech future. As an example, let's say I give you a trained neural net. It's entirely open source, you can examine all the nodes, all the weights, all the code, everything. But I won't tell you how I trained that NN. Are you going to trust it?
On the basis of this "tends" you make a rather drastic request to NOT revive you if you'll be running on top of some closed-source layer.
That's true. But given the various reasonably-possible scenarios I can think of, making this extreme of a request seems to be the only way to express the strength of my concern. I'll admit it's not a common worry; of course, this isn't a common sort of document.
(If you want to know more about what leads me to this conclusion, you could do worse than to Google one of Cory Doctorow's talks or essays on 'the war...
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