One might even argue the idea of individual control is somewhat at odds with the logical structure of FOSS, particularly in it's GNUist form - i.e. for a Lisper (and Stallman was/is one), there's no semantic distinction between code and data. Your position requires distinguishing bits from bits.
Solutions which distinguish bits from bits are political, not computational.
I struggle to understand how this can be true, and I say that as a Lisper (spiritually if not currently), because 'this data does something meaningful when interpreted by a computer' is exactly a semantic distinction from 'this other data doesn't'
Or to be Wittgensteinian about it, point to the part of a datum which is the meaning.
Being able to open up a word processing document without it being able to execute arbitrary code on my computer is one of the many benefits.
Oh, wait, Microsoft Word macros...