It's a brief article, and worth a read. If you use software to guide and support you in any environment and it's not free software (free as in speech, and as i

It's a brief article, and worth a read. If you use software to guide and support you in any environment and it's not free software (free as in speech, and as in the definition provided by the FSF), then even though that non-free software may provide you with short-term benefits (that may be worth it), you've given up some of your autonomy to another party. People will downplay that aspect of software all the time - "proprietary software is good for business thanks to support contracts", "people don't care as long as the software works", "free software has poor usability". That's understandable and those are beliefs that those people usually genuinely hold, but it doesn't change the underlying principle of the situation. (this generally applies to hardware and computing platforms too) [1] - https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software