I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected

From Medium:

Copyright is key to what my friend Cory Doctorow has called the “coming civil war war over general purpose computing,” a campaign, sometimes overt, to prevent the people who buy gear — you and me, individually and in our schools, businesses, and other organizations — from actually owning it. Copyright law is the control freaks’ leverage, because it allows them to legally prevent us from tinkering (they’d say tampering) with what they sell.

Of course, unless you know how to fork, code, and compile your own applications, you are to a certain extent surrendering your freedom to a different sort of control freak - the stewards of the codebase.