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by zeveb 2614 days ago
> The main FSF Libre software benefits they tout ‘for users’ are only actually accessible by developers.

You're assuming that users cannot themselves be developers. Why can't they? Writing software is a skill and can be taught.

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No I'm not at all, I'm simply observing that in the real world most users of software are not developers and therefore do not have access to those benefits. In fact all but a small fraction of developers don't either, for any given project, because they happen to not know the language and dev tools used for it.

The fact that they could theoretically in principle access those benefits and therefore everything is in reality ok, is the sort of magical thinking that has put the Libre Software movement out on the fringes of relevance.

They have access; they choose not to avail themselves of it.

If I refuse to exercise a capability, that doesn't mean that I don't have it.

Refusing to tell a computer what to to is an odd choice, because what else is a computer for?