> In our Free World there is no place for non-free software. We will
The first technical moves of the FSF was to implement an libre editor, and libre compiler on top of a proprietary operating system (UNIX). The goal was to replace it, piece by piece.
If the people at the FSF had been so strict at that time, the GNU Project and the FSF would not exist today.
Yes, GNU Project used prison's facilities to escape from the prison (and to free all innocent prisoners). The dependant (software and people) was made independend by this act. This does not give one an argument to make someone else dependent again, just the opposite.
Even more -- if they thought like you today, they wouldn't start the effort to reimplement the system. Because, you say:
This software is a very important part of a computer system: no software can run without it.
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