And this tension in goals is not limited to software. Modifying and repairing hardware is similarly fraught. You can get yourself into all kinds of trouble by tinkering with (say) your car.
The real difference is that you generally have to be in physical proximity to hardware in order to tinker with it, and that puts a very hard constraint on random people mucking with your car. Not so for software, especially in the age of the internet.
The real difference is that you generally have to be in physical proximity to hardware in order to tinker with it, and that puts a very hard constraint on random people mucking with your car. Not so for software, especially in the age of the internet.