This seems very silly, the backend code for most websites (including sql queries, db stored procedures) are almost always proprietary too. Plus it might be runn

This seems very silly, the backend code for most websites (including sql queries, db stored procedures) are almost always proprietary too. Plus it might be running on proprietary architecture such as Windows Server, IIS, Oracle, ColdFusion, etc... So it's a very strange to focus on the JS so much. I don't see a meaningful distinction between "running locally" vs "running on the server" when everything works together to get you the result. The css and html are proprietary too, sure they are not executing, but I don't see how that is a meaningful difference, html, css, and js all work together to tell the browser how to render the page. It's a package deal. Beyond that, websites are chock full of proprietary images, fonts, and videos. When literally the entirety of a website is proprietary, it makes zero sense to "fix" it with making just the Javascript free (as in freedom).