"Free software empowers users to replace any software hostile to their interests." I suppose so, but there's a much powerful mechanism: consumer choice. If a

"Free software empowers users to replace any software hostile to their interests." I suppose so, but there's a much powerful mechanism: consumer choice. If a user feels a phone is hostile to them, they will buy one which is not. This replacement phone may be Free Software, or it may be non-Free. Free Software can be user-friendly software, yes, but it can also be user-hostile. Users won't use hostile Free software, but they won't use hostile closed source software, either. That's the free market at work. The FSF's position here is akin to: "Buy open source toasters, so you can easily modify it if it's a design which spontaneously explodes!" No thanks--I'll just buy a different toaster.