I don't really buy into the political debate. The arguments for open source as applied to non-technical users don't really work as advertised from my experience

I don't really buy into the political debate. The arguments for open source as applied to non-technical users don't really work as advertised from my experience. Sure, you could potentially find someone to maintain it if the version you depend on goes bottom up. But the contexts where that's the preferred solution are few and far between. People don't certainly exercised their right to modify the source code as often as their usage. It's certainly an important right, but less often than the right to use the software as the user see fit. Arguably freedom zero is much more important in a world in which every business and companies are trying to nickel and dime you as an eternal income stream.