"...The feeling of not being able to fix buggy software is very depressing. Manufacturers of washing machines should ship source code with every device.

(Come to think of it, I would also like to edit my microwave's program. I don't want it to beep when I press a button, but I do want it to beep at the end of the cycle. This is not an option, but would be easy to add. If I had the source code.)"