> Whether software code or legal code, when you don't have the ability

Reads awkwardly due to subject mismatch. The first clause, "whether software code or legal code," talks about the code, but the second clause diverges a bit and talks about the abstract "you". Perhaps `Whether to software code or legal code, lack of access to the creation process of these kinds of code forces one to go to the publisher, rather than the content, in an opaque, one-to-one interaction.` Also, what's `one-to-one` mean here, and why is it bad?