> I can think of a lot of instances where people would be thrilled if they even had the ability to fix a persistent issue with software that the company won't f

> I can think of a lot of instances where people would be thrilled if they even had the ability to fix a persistent issue with software that the company won't fix itself. And that's Stallman's start in free software - he wanted to fix a printer driver but they wouldn't give him the source code.