> I simply cannot fix bugs in, say, GCC, and it would also be pretty hard for me to pay someone
This is like saying free speech is not important because you have nothing to say.
This is like saying free speech is not important because you have nothing to say.
So, here I am, 4 downvotes to my name for stating the obvious. Despite years of membership, I don't have downvote privileges, so I guess I just have to bow to the galaxy-sized minds that have this ability, and deal with the crumbs that do leave a reply, however utterly misguided?
And once you do care as a user FOSS gives you more options since you can invest either time or money to fix your problems, and the market of who you can give money to support you isn't artificially constrained by IP access.