He is not taking away any choices. He just makes choices. A result of freedom. He is not forcing it onto anybody. He's just practising it.
Freedom is not a zero-sum game, but a optimisation problem. Take some people the right to parasite other peoples work is somehow lowering their freedom, but it gives much more freedom to the end user. It's up to you to decide what is more important.
But this debate already happened a millions times and I don't think this is going to be fruitful.
> He is not taking away any choices. He just makes choices.
Well, he literally made the choice to take away once of our choices. But you're right, that is a result of his personal freedom (and I don't mind that).
> [...] it gives much more freedom to the end user.
I couldn't disagree more, but that's okay I guess.
> But this debate already happened a millions times and I don't think this is going to be fruitful.
That depends or your definition of fruitful. I never head your opinion on it before, and now I did. I also think it's a good idea to remind the next generation of developers that we don't have all the answers yet.
Freedom is not a zero-sum game, but a optimisation problem. Take some people the right to parasite other peoples work is somehow lowering their freedom, but it gives much more freedom to the end user. It's up to you to decide what is more important.
But this debate already happened a millions times and I don't think this is going to be fruitful.