> The essence of Free Software is: “When it breaks, you get to keep both halves.” If something doesn’t work the way you want it to, you can change it so that it does. [...] If you want the software to get updated—to have bugs fixed and security vulnerabilities patched—you want something very different. What you want is an ongoing supply of software, not a copy of a specific software artifact. Confusing these two situations is, I think, at the core of the current angst about sustainability of free and open source software.

- Justin Warren, "Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships" on the PivotNine blog. https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/