All this accomplishes is allowing a designer so choose from a palette list of comparable colours. You could always make your own named spot swatches and let you

All this accomplishes is allowing a designer so choose from a palette list of comparable colours. You could always make your own named spot swatches and let your printer sort it out. (This is basically what is happening) Often if they are named, like Pantone, they are looked up on the digital press/printer's controller/rasterizer based on the stock selection, available toner/inks, etc. Then there is often a loop for calibration and adjustment for humidity, temp, and the lot. Some pre-press worker is going to have to manually swap Freetone picks for the actual Pantone names so the rasterization process spits out a reproducible and accurate set of separations for process. I wouldn't hold your breath for a Freeflow/Firey upgrade to automate Freetone anytime soon...