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> Forcing your code to be open forever isn't freedom, it's the omission of freedom.

This isn't true. As an analogy, consider that forcing people to not own slaves isn't the omission of freedom. See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html

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Code is not sentient, has no human rights, masters don't create slaves out of caffeine, etc. etc. This analogy does not hold at all in my opinion.

No, it's a good analogy, because it's not between the similarity of people and code. The cases are similar, because in both you restrict freedom to enable freedom.

Making source code available and not requiring the same of those who use it is a temporary fleeting freedom that soon turns into lack of freedom.

Like thinking you're ending slavery by freeing all the current slaves but not making it illegal to own, buy, and sell slaves, or capture previously free people into slavery. Guess if you'd have slavery again very soon?

The analogy is about freedom vs lack thereof, not manual labour vs software. And as you see, it works very well.

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