I don't think they would accept it as "religious", but that would be an amazing and useful hack: creating a "religion" of software freedom. It wouldn't even be a total lie, since we do object to nonfree software on moral grounds. That would eliminate their ability to push us aside so easily: we could simply say "that goes against my religious beliefs", and that would be the end of the discussion.

It would only be easily usable by atheists, though (how would a Christian or Muslim explain something like that?), and it could make enemies of people we don't need to make enemies with (very religious people, anti-religious people), so for the moment, at least, best to keep that idea in the "interesting thought experiments" section.

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