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That depends on whether you consider freedom in itself to be a quality or not, and if you do, how much weight you give to the freedom quality.

Then, the question is whether a certain proprietary software as enough other qualities to make up for the missing quality of freedom.

Also, freedom is not a pure ethical quality. It means greater independence as well as freedom of action, which both can be very valuable (in dollars), for companies even more then for single users.