That is a very US-centric perspective on freedom, and one that isn’t actually very helpful in assessing actual real-life restrictions of a license. You may win the philosophical argument on the nature of freedom, but you lose the debate participants. If both the vendor can’t continue working on the software, because they’re unable to monetize it, and the user is unwilling to use it due to concerns over exposing business secrets, the outcome is a net-negative, no matter how venerable your cause might be.