I always prefer free software over non-free software hardware, but if I have
no choice I will use non-free software even knowing that it is not a good
principle. Knowing that non-free software is bad for freedom is something,
even if I have to use it. In the end, I always give primacy to what is most
convenient for me.
I do not understand the logic that makes you reach the conclusion in the last
sentence given the premises in the previous sentences.
I don't follow nor like sects!
Neither do I. But the FSF is not a sect. Sects do not promote individual
freedoms. Quite the contrary. If I (and other users of this forum) often
refer to Stallman, it is simply because he expresses my (our) opinions in a
clear and well argued way, better than I (we) can. In the same way that you
were certainly referring to philosophers when writing philosophy dissertation
in high school. On the topic at hand, here is for instance an excellent
article that Stallman wrote: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html
