I think &quot;regardless regardless of what positive effects it might have had otherwise&quot; is generally the foil in accepting the full FSF position on political topics.<p>When one&#x27;s philosophy is that the Four Freedoms strictly trump any convenience in any context, you&#x27;re missing out on the collective benefits that make the current transition to shared, administered, cloud-based technologies so powerful for the users that adopt them. Users are willing to accept a massive spike in convenience and utility for the drastically-less-than-1% chance that Amazon kills their favorite book from their device, without their consent, with a refund. That&#x27;s not evil; it&#x27;s the nature of progress (along the same lines as accepting that you might have to pay taxes---in essence, give up your own hard-earned possessions to a collective over which you have minimal power to decree how those possessions will be used---to live in a place where you don&#x27;t have to arm yourself against bandits or maintain your own roads, etc.). Hell, if you don&#x27;t like the way Amazon is administering its chunk of the cloud, it&#x27;s a lot easier to leave Amazon than to leave a country.