GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation)

I believe your analogies are misleading, and sometimes disregard the fundamental differences
between information and hardware. It is sometimes better to try to explain your actual
viewpoint than your analogies.

My counterpoint to your car example is that you are free to modify your car to get any desired
behaviour you want. Of course, if you wanted to use public roads then you need to get an
assurance that it was all done in a safe way, depending on your local laws.

Your counterpoint would be that while I am allowed to do so the blueprints/APIs are not always
publicly available. And less so today than a few years ago especially since digital equipment
in cars are often black boxes (in every way), which is a bit ironic. Then I would say that
while not always available, reverse engineering them is mostly legal and the information is
available from third parties. Which gets us nowhere on the finer points of free software. It
only proves that analogies are like giraffes.