GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons (Datamation)

>making the incorrect assumption that the existence of free harwardare projects means that
hardware isn't normally free, and a final assertion that is most likely way off base since the
only unfree (not unmodifiable) parts to most hardware is the software. 

While I agree with your overall point, I see a bigger problem here with the post to which you
are responding.  It fails to acknowledge what makes software special in the context of
freedom.  As information, software is (1) non-rival and (2) is both input and output of its
own production process(*).  Considerations such as freedom must be re-evaluated in such a
context, and, indeed, the re-evaluation has been taking place for some time now, such as in
court cases (e.g., software patents).  From the beginning decades ago, Stallman's arguments
have acknowledged the special qualities of software.  

(*)See _Wealth of Networks_, Yochai Benkler.