Comment by ulrikrasmussen

No it's not. I need permission by a third-party to be able to program a device I supposedly own. I need to give them money, I need to give them my identity, and I need to tie my identity to any distribution of the software I make if other people are to be able to install it.

This is not a rhetorical sleight of hand, this is just saying that I am not truly in control of the device that I have bought.