The author isn’t wrong but is it the right battle to fight?

They talk about dams and bridges being the birth of the engineering profession. Software though isn’t some newbuild home or bridge foundation or aircraft turbine blade, where I have to have faith in a system that stops crooks from selling me a house that will fall down, a bridge that will collapse, or a jet engine that explodes.

In fact, given the source code, build system, and some documentation, I — little old me! — can find bugs, fix them, and ship a working build. So can thousands of other fellow consumers.

I would rather advocate for statutory openness and freedom than trying to force quality control on what’s left of the closed, proprietary status quo. It would be a utopia indeed if we could get out of this rut where I (and my community of consumer tinkerers) are forbidden from unlocking our iPhones and Subarus and LGTVs to their full potential.

From the post:

> What I'm proposing is only for commercial software, at the end of the supply chain

Doesn't preclude modifying software on your own devices.