Why do people use this Freetardism "Freedoms" for anything software, when most of this is easy to argue against. This person made a good webpage explaining the errors of this.
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/freetardism.html
But if you're not willing to go to the side, here's his writing of that section:
"The four essential freedoms A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]"
Okay, so a program has to satisfy some defined freedoms to be considered "free software". But do those freedoms actually have any relevancy to actual, practical freedom?
Freedom 0
"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
"The freedom to run the program […] without being required to communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity. " - You mean that, for all those years I've been using Windows programs, I've been required to communicate with some "entities"? That's funny.
"In this freedom, it is the user's purpose that matters, not the developer's purpose" - This is actually impossible - the purpose is always defined by the programmers. And "free software" might still impose unwanted "purposes" onto you - like all the "free software" browsers on https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/ (archive). On the other hand, a nonfree software might make its purpose evident and not violate it - and will provide more actual freedom than so-called free software.. Also,
"The freedom to run the program as you wish means that you are not forbidden or stopped from making it run" - this is easy to violate in the so-called "free software". What prevents me from making a program that can only be run on Wednesdays? Nothing.
Freedom 1
"The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access Post too long. Click here to view the full text.