I think it's silly, treating software as if it had some sort of moral imperative attached to it. It's as if FOSS advocates want to treat software as intelligent beings - which software obviously is not.
Sorry, but software is an inanimate object, like an automobile. It doesn't have any natural rights.
When writing software, I'm very much with the open source movement on this. Open source is great, but it's not a moral imperative. I have no qualms with mixing open source with proprietary, and I see no reason why it should become the next major world religion.
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