[nonrandomstring]

I hear you, but think we are talking at cross purposes here because I am not making a Free Software argument. If we can factor out "proprietary is evil" for a moment then there's a world of difference between human activities that serve our mutual day-to-day needs and those that are parasitic upon our vices.

[caslon]

I don't see how this argument isn't roughly writing off the root of all of these problems in exchange for one of the symptoms.