Although I agree that their purpose wasn't to reduce the market value of software to zero, it is the effect. That's why it's disingenuous to me. It's an attempt

Although I agree that their purpose wasn't to reduce the market value of software to zero, it is the effect. That's why it's disingenuous to me. It's an attempt to route around an obvious truth: if you allow someone to distribute your software freely, you've set its market value to zero. Not sure how you can disagree with this. You haven't offered any counterargument to that.