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"your own civil rights, your tax money and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used around you: it is in your interest to demand as soon as possible laws that forbid some practices or allow, in certain contexts, only free digital formats and software".- How to turn into Free Software supporters people who couldn't care less
...and many more arguments for software freedom in that blog post. The writer's main point is to focus on supporting the principles of software freedom (or open source if you prefer), and only suggest using particular software if it really is something they'll benefit from. Richard Stallman might disagree, but I think this is the right approach.
