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Two aspects: 'skybrian touched the first one - back in the days RMS formed FSF, there wasn't as sharp distinction between users and programmers. Things have changed, but in some aspect not for the better. Users are now a completely separate class and treated as children/monkeys by our industry; from "bicycles for the mind", computers turned into glorified mail-order catalogs. That's tangential, but I would only say that where skybrian's Apple-like companies are failing users is by making everything easier except being a proficient computer user.

Second aspect: while freedoms 1 and 3 are developer-specific, they assume and secure an open marketplace. They're about the same thing that "Right to Repair" movement fights for in the hardware space - the ability for me, as a lay user, to ask a professional friend/neighbour, or a local shop, to pretty please fix/modify my software/hardware. The ability for that friend/local professional to perform that work legally. Where Open Source only allows this to happen, FSF-style Free Software tries to force it to happen, by legally ensuring the benefits I ordered and someone made for me could be used by the entire community.

It's a hard sell for businesses earning money by making software, but from the user's perspective it's important on a longer-term - particularly if said user believes in competitive markets, as competition in a market doesn't really work unless it happens over a commodity.