I should add that the quoted part is also literally false - free software (I assume he means the GPL, as this does not apply to permissive licenses that are als

I should add that the quoted part is also literally false - free software (I assume he means the GPL, as this does not apply to permissive licenses that are also FLOSS, whose existence he ignores) grants the recipient strictly more rights than proprietary software. Rarely does one encounter prose so dense with falsehood and deceit.