It seems you are approaching this topic from the perspective that technological progress is of most value. For others, ethical progress--that is, technological

It seems you are approaching this topic from the perspective that technological progress is of most value. For others, ethical progress--that is, technological progress that does not impede on human rights--is of higher value than technological progress alone. >[I]s Raytheon's freedom to use a compiler as important as individual freedom? "As important" is a distraction: comparing degrees of importance with respect to rights and freedoms will always be a rabbit hole into which you will get lost as you differentiate infinitesimal cases in context. Freedom is freedom, and if humans are allowed that, that is enough.