I upvoted you (despite being an avowed team "Free" type) because I think you're right, > the entire discussion along the lines of Free vs Open ... clearly hasn

I upvoted you (despite being an avowed team "Free" type) because I think you're right, > the entire discussion along the lines of Free vs Open ... clearly hasn't helped with anything. The whole point of Free (I don't know what the point of "Open" source is, but I don't want to engage in all that here) software is that the user can edit the code. I was thinking only this morning that smartphones aren't really computers, they are malls. Sure there's a computer in there, several, but only in the same way that there are computers in your car. And everybody is okay with this. And it's safer! And the freedoms you're losing you didn't know about in the first place anyway so no one misses them. I don't like it but it looks to me like humans are shaping up to be cells in some sort of mega-cyborg. (I'm having a ranty Sunday morning...)