Or maybe C doesn't care about your definition of ``freedom'', and has shit he wants to get done in the most efficient way possible. I wouldn't call it a short sighted way of life, I'd call it ``not being a GPL fag''.
I ask once again, how does one live in freedom when one requires permission to help oneself and be an upstanding citizen?
Let's take the example of Adobe Photoshop. It is a very useful and powerful program. However, it has the problem of being user subjugating software.
With Photoshop, users don't even have the right to freedom 0. In order to remain legal, users must get explicit permission from Adobe using Photoshop's DRM scheme just to get very limited rights to freedom 0. The people that install and use Photoshop without Adobe's blessing is violating the terms of the licence. They have to live underground rather than live as an upstanding member of society.
How do licensed users of Adobe Photoshop live in freedom? The answer is they don't. What people do is trade their right to live as legitimate citizens in order to use a very attractive and powerful tool. These people are short sighted for trading their freedom for convenient subjugation.