[email protected] wrote:
[...] that's like saying it's wrong to have the copy of the proprietary typeface I once bought on my hard drive, not installed.
You lack the freedoms of Free Software in that typeface, regardless of whether that typeface is installed or not. The proprietors who hold the copyright to that font are treating you unethically by not selling you a license that would allow you to share and improve the font as you see fit. It is that very lack of freedom Stallman challenges and urges users to reject. He presents an ethics-based argument (not censorship) for software that respects user's software freedom to run, share, and modify for any reason at any time. Therefore one can see how directing users to nonfree software is unwise and inappropriate for a system built to champion a user's software freedom. Nobody is ignoring nonfree software. To the contrary, quite a bit of Free Software is written to replace nonfree software.
