> The freedom to deny the freedom of another person is not a freedom worth discussing.
Nobody denies anyone anything. If $corp never makes a piece of software, the users never had rights to begin with. If $corp makes it but doesn't open source the software, the users still never had rights to begin with. It is not "denying people freedom" to exercise one's right to make software which is not open source.
> They allow corporations to take what they want and give back nothing.
This is, and has always been, a very weak argument. When a developer makes a public gift of their software, it is very churlish indeed to complain when someone makes use of that gift. It's also pretty hypocritical, unless you're going to make the same complaint about individuals using open source software and not giving back.
Nobody denies anyone anything. If $corp never makes a piece of software, the users never had rights to begin with. If $corp makes it but doesn't open source the software, the users still never had rights to begin with. It is not "denying people freedom" to exercise one's right to make software which is not open source.
> They allow corporations to take what they want and give back nothing.
This is, and has always been, a very weak argument. When a developer makes a public gift of their software, it is very churlish indeed to complain when someone makes use of that gift. It's also pretty hypocritical, unless you're going to make the same complaint about individuals using open source software and not giving back.