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I am not complaining, I am answering to "Free software as the freedom to ...study, change and improve the software."

This is just not true for most modern open source software.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were complaining. I was just curious where else you feel the value lies in that software, if freedom isn't it?

Maybe be it's just that I have advocated for open source at my company for a long time. I remember playing with and trying to improve smallC [0] in the 1980' when there was no GCC.

Yet, at the same time, TurboC from Borland was an incredible product. I would be happy to have today a similar editor for Java and PHP.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C

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