I'm deliberately entangling them, because outside of an abstract conversation, the behaviour of humans and the resulting economics of the marketplace are entang

I'm deliberately entangling them, because outside of an abstract conversation, the behaviour of humans and the resulting economics of the marketplace are entangled, as I'm sure you agree. Freedom for humans creates incentives for manufacturers to exploit that freedom. If you give humans the right to buy anything they want, sooner or later someone will make a health drink containing Radium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor At that point, you either go full Libtard and say, "we're all adults here, caveat emptor" or you regulate the marketplace and make it illegal for people to do business in Radium drinks. I'm not saying anyone should be prohibited from buying/leasing/licensing proprietary, opaque software. But I do think there are reasonable arguments for such. So what I would say back to you is "Do not conflate saying there are reasonable arguments for X with saying X should be the case."