@yomiel @menherahair @phnt @Suiseiseki @Cyrillic @SuperDicq @lxo
>You are ideological to the point of foolishness. A true double think; that you are more free because you can't install software. I have the freedom to easily install practically any software.
First, let's clarify the terms, because if everyone interprets them however they want, the debate loses its meaning.

Libertad, from the Latin libertas, derives from liber, meaning "a free person" in opposition to a slave. From this root, we understand that freedom involves not being subject to the will of another. This is how "freedom" is understood in my language. I’m not familiar with the ἐτυμολογία of "freedom", and if its meaning differs significantly, I’d be curious to learn about this novel concept of libertas. However, from what I can tell, both terms seem to point to the same idea: being free, in contrast to the slave, that is, to someone who is not the master of themselves.

Now, if freedom is the ability to be the master of oneself, a question arises:

Is someone more free if they can sell themselves into slavery than someone who cannot?

At first glance, it seems like they are, since the former has the "freedom" to choose their own slavery. But if we look deeper, we see that once they make that choice, they stop being the master of themselves and thus lose their freedom.

The paradox is clear: the act of giving up freedom, in itself, destroys freedom. Therefore, someone who cannot sell themselves into slavery is ultimately freer, because their freedom does not depend on a choice that could nullify it.

This concept is universal and applies to software as well. As Richard Stallman says:

"With software, either the users control the program or the program controls the users".

A proprietary software has an owner. Evidently, that owner is not you. With free software, however, you own a copy of the program, with the ability to study, modify, and share it. If software is the tool you use to interact with your computer, then whoever controls the software controls your tool. And if your tool is under someone else’s control, your freedom within that environment is as well. The difference is clear: having the option to install any software is not freedom if, by doing so, you lose control over what it does to your computer. Just like the slave who chose their master, the user who chooses proprietary software surrenders their freedom in exchange for convenience.