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GPL *protects* against tivoization, proprietarization and patent trolling. It partially protects from SaaS.

These are all things that currently threaten the freedom of users and developers.

Ramblings about impossible alternative universes adds very little.

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Your definition of freedom seem to be other people doing what you want them to do. That's not how I see freedom. Someone offering software as a service is not a threat to anyone's freedom. Preventing them from doing so by the threat of state violence makes both the business and it's potential customers less free.