Oh, how much banal truth there is here that nobody needs. The very quintessence of the hacker mindset. And then they go on about evil megacorporations, marketing, and patents. They have only themselves to blame for their troubles.
https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
The hard disk that hosted my /home directory on my Linux machine failed so I had to replace it with a new one. Since this machine lives under my desk, I had to unplug all the cables, get it out, swap the hard drives and plug everything back again.