At this rate (on the trend that this article also denounces), I feel like considering giving up computation altogether is on the table (like supposedly happened

At this rate (on the trend that this article also denounces), I feel like considering giving up computation altogether is on the table (like supposedly happened in the Dune fictional universe). RMS has been right all along, although he may not be delivering his message in the most effective way possible, the core of this ideology is the understanding that when software does not encourage freedom, is all but restricting it. (IMHO) Software is a development on par with writing itself. Writing as a technology provides the basis (the foundation) for all of what is considered "civilized", the law (in general, any and all law) is a written artifact. Hence, I conclude that as a society we need to acknowledge what software enables for the concept of law. However, unlike law which can (and has been) used to curtail freedom all through history, when written laws are used to this end they require a police or another kind of violent-if-necessary "enforcement". The critical point is that software does not need this kind of enforcement. Software can accomplish a comparable freedom-reduction much more softly; but not less effectively (arguably, software can be even more effective).