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If you want to spend money on something that just works, while still supporting free software, you can buy a laptop from a company like System76 or ThinkPenguin.

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But why should I support "free software", especially when people like the FSF want to convince me to sign away my rights as a developer of such software?

I don't support restrictive, people-hating ideologies. And neither should you.

How is software freedom a people-hating ideology? The FSF doesn't say that software must be under the GPL or another copyleft license to be considered free. Permissive licenses such as the BSD, X11, ISC, zlib, and Apache licenses are also free-software licenses. Many software freedom advocates choose to use copyleft licenses, and encourage others to do so, because they believe that's the best way to reach their goals. But they don't demand that all software be copyleft.

Such troll message, I don't even know where to begin.

Is this really what some people revert to when offered useful software, often for free, which access to source and permission to use, modify and share the program?

If sharing is an "people-hating ideologies", what must proprietary software then be?

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