This is a whataboutist counterpoint at best. Universities and their researchers are not a monolith.

Then just write proprietary code. Open source philosophy to me seems about creation for a “greater good”. What’s the point if you’re not even going to be open? The organisation just becomes a massive corporation like any other at that point.

That depends on whether the communication channel is encrypted.

Reddit is ProCSS

Fedora, I’m not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works