I think this is an important concern. Two possible responses follow, though I don’t think that they are entirely adequate. First of all, it’s not obvious why w

I think this is an important concern. Two possible responses follow, though I don’t think that they are entirely adequate. First of all, it’s not obvious why we should only consider technical concerns—perhaps reduced performance is a price worth paying. One might even say that technical performance is useless as a metric per se; technical performance is useful insofar as it works for good ends, which is exactly the sort of norm OSOS would work towards. Second, it is possible to endorse some norms as above concerning who should use software without endorsing all possible norms, in the same way that we have a nonzero number of relatively uncontentious free speech restrictions (e.g., don’t shout fire, etc.) Now, whether OSOS is something that can be justified in a similar fashion is yet to be seen, but it is certainly worth trying.