>I find this gatekeeping at odds with RMS's insistence that all software should be open source. What is the purpose of open source, if you can't do anything wit

>I find this gatekeeping at odds with RMS's insistence that all software should be open source. What is the purpose of open source, if you can't do anything with the source code? Asking to/paying whomever you want and not calling the software maker or one of its licensees. Stallman is a libertarian, his theory is planted firmly on a market or a cooperative community. EDIT: Let's be pedantic: for those reasons GNU and himself insist on free/libre software, openness of the source grants your eyeballs to read the source, but you however may just be in the situation where you are evaluating a software under EULA, so: you can read it but can't modify the slightest line (and recompile).