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by lupusreal 855 days ago
It prevents the editor from (legally) becoming proprietary software which deprives users of their software freedoms.
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I suspect that if someone is in a position where they are compelled to purchase and use the proprietary version and not the free (and available) version, they already lack most software freedoms. Probably several other, more important, freedoms as well.