[nickelpro]

> That is obviously false...

It is fundamentally true. You cannot have a Pokemon community without Pokemon, a knitting community with yarn, or a software community without software.

> Technically true

You should have stopped here. It is true. Period, full stop. Everything else is fluff.

> The vast majority of software which can technically be described as "open source" is mostly inconsequential to computing or anyone's lives.

This is because the open source software movement was so overwhelming in its success it became the norm.

> He didn't need to invent a social movement and philosophy to fix his printer issue.

Yes he did. The philosophy is about the freedom to fix your printer. It is not about engaging others to fix your printer, or obliging maintainers to fix your printer.

Those things are follow ons to the core philosophy. Once you have the freedom to fix your printer, you can form communities of people also interested in fixing printers. The freedom comes first.

> Whether the original developers supported it or not is irrelevant.

It's literally the only thing we're talking about. Open source enables others to come along and support software abandoned by or simply never championed by its original creator. Without open source you do not have those later "someones".