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They get to counter a point they think is wrong in an open forum on the internet. I guess they get the satisfaction of providing a second viewpoint to a claim, so that the claim, alone, is not the only viewpoint that others coming to this thread see.

What did you get out of calling out their counterclaim?

> They get to counter a point they think is wrong

They didn't counter OP's claim, though. OP is essentially saying that software other than open-source can be trustworthy and the supposed counter-claim is that open-source software is more trustworthy. Regardless of that being true or false, it's not a counter to the claim that closed-source software can also be trustworthy.

The satisfaction that they told the objective truth.

I have the impression these people only use Big Tech open source projects. Why would they expect software developers to work for free so they can give their beautiful contribution of using it for free is really unknown to me.