This is true, but the right to inspect software has meaning even if it isn't used. It can be used by other people besides the proverbial "average Joe", and non-

This is true, but the right to inspect software has meaning even if it isn't used. It can be used by other people besides the proverbial "average Joe", and non-techs can ask tech friends about software. Every technical person also started out as a non-technical child. This is also a baseline, not the endgame. Software freedom is a necessary but insufficient condition for user freedom. I wrote about other conditions as well. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25982860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25982860