> I argue that decommoditized protocols are a very effective weapon against free software in the short term, but in the long term will help free software become more fulfilling to users.

It's not even about free software. Having proprietary standards just produces shit software. See: word, zoom. Proprietary formats are not even a thing (the idea of making some simple text documents that need a certain OS to read and write is absurd) but forced cancer that only exists because the company tries hard enough to maintain their crapware.