@ehashman >you've constructed your identity around free software "extremism".
Except I haven't.

>How long have you felt this way?
I've felt the need for freedom since birth, but such has been hidden from me until recently.

>What are you trying to convince *me* of?
Nothing.

>That I should care more about the inanimate tool, software, than how it affects the people using it?
Software is a tool.
You can have a terrible proprietary tool that doesn't respect your freedom or a decent tool that respects your freedom.

If the software is free, then the people using it are able to work together in rectifying anything seen to be non-ideal, or even do so themselves.


If you care about what people do to other people, go ahead, but that doesn't have anything to do with software freedom.