[flomble]

It's not circular because "freedom" can't really be used to refer to price (e.g. "freedom of beer"), so it actually disambiguates. I wouldn't personally default to assuming a political motivation for the wording in this case.

[DonHopkins]

Sure it can be used to referred to price: "freedom of cost", thus "free as in beer" -vs- "free as in speech", a common expression you may have heard before, if you are aware of the Free Software Foundation.

https://jamesdixon.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/what-does-free-a...

It's not that it demonstrates a political motivation, just an ignorance of the actual free software culture they're trying to associate themselves with. It's like saying "Make America USA Again". Tautologically circular, close, but no cigar.