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Proprietary software is a societal ill, like spyware is. Getting people to understand that will be similar to when societies have figured out other things are wrong, like child labor is wrong. While proprietary software runs rampant, certain parts of our overall freedom and privacy has regressed in comparison to before computers, and in comparison to how they should be. It is not a lost cause to think that the software we depend on to live our lives should act in our interests, and having the 4 freedoms on that software is simply an essential part of it acting in our interest.