The freedom to modify should be compared to the freedom to ask anyone to repair it. You may not be personally capable of modifying the software to suit your needs, but if the software is free, you can hire anyone to do it for you without having to beg the original author to do so for you.
Only now is this argument starting to come to other things such as cars and farm equipment as they get ever more software in them. People are finally starting to want this freedom to modify but phrase it as right to repair.
Only now is this argument starting to come to other things such as cars and farm equipment as they get ever more software in them. People are finally starting to want this freedom to modify but phrase it as right to repair.