In today's open source roundup: A redditor wants to know why open source software is more secure. Plus: Mozilla releases Firefox 41. And Fedora 23 beta released.

While stuck in I-66 traffic one morning, a colleague and I had a vigorous debate on the merits of open-source versus proprietary (commercial) software. I was left with the realization of how much misinformation still persists about this particular subject.

Examples abound of leading tech companies that have adopted open source strategy and contribute actively to open source tools and communities.

In March, the government of the Slovak Republic officially approved its 2014 guideline on ICT standards. The guide provides detailed instructions for public sector organisations, including mandating making future desktop software solutions platform independent, and making new browser plug-ins and client applications available as open source.

The Open Source Survey is an open data project by GitHub and collaborators from academia, industry, and the broader open source community.

The web platform running the winning campaign of the next President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is made with Symfony and is open source.

SiFive is the first fabless semiconductor company to build customized silicon based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture.

Tired of the domination of x86, ARM, and other closed chip architectures, researchers created the open-source RISC-V architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010.

The majority (75%) of municipalities in the Walloon region of Belgium are now using open source software and services. In the region 261 cities, towns, villages and other public administrations are using 8 open source-based solutions that are centrally managed and maintained by Intercommunale de Mutualisation Informatique et Organisationnelle (IMIO), an IT service provider set up in 2011 by the Walloon government.

Wire server code: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server

The source code of the server components is licensed under AGPL and can be used according to those terms unless otherwise specified for third-party components.

In the longer term future there will be a self-hosted version of Wire that optionally federates with the main Wire cloud.

In fact, our GitHub organization now has more than 16,000 open source contributors – more than any other organization – and we’re proud to partner closely with GitHub to promote open source.

Oversec constantly monitors the text on your screen. When it finds an encrypted text, it tries to decrypt it and then shows the decrypted text as an overlay in place of the encrypted text.

Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.