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Your argument is 'moot'.

Free software is no more 'forcing' anyone to respect your ideological beliefs than proprietary software is, in neither case you can 'prevent anyone from throwing it out on principle'.

Proprietary limits the rights of end users, you are free to not use proprietary software.

Free software secures rights of end users, you are free to not use Free software.



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