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It respects your freedom because you (and everyone else) have the ability to run, study, modify and distribute the source code.
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You didn't explain how a piece of software that DOESN'T allow me to do my work respect my freedom. It is just wasting people's time and effort, and not respecting anything.
Free =/= good
And if the software isn't at least good, then it is nearly useless.
And the entire "free software" community is at fault for this because it doesn't push developers to actually make good software. It's like soviet Russian cars like the Trabant or Lada. Technically it is a car. Not a good one, but it is a car, so somehow we should be happy with what we got.