Are you saying that a person which uses a zero cost OS for hobby is looking for free speech while someone which has paid for it is looking for free beer?
No. I'm saying that your analogy is rubbish. First of all the idea that someone who uses Windows has actually paid for it ludicrous, since Windows itself is not exempt from the rampant piracy that plagues the platform.Secondly like it's been mentioned 100 times over, very few people care what OS they're using. Only people using Linux have made a conscious choice, everyone else is just using whatever came in the box.
But to try to answer your question, there are millions of people using free software (like Apache, Open Office and Django) on commercial propriety operating systems (Windows / MacOS / Solaris), now since these people specifically chose a non-free OS, it would be hypocritical (at best) for these people to claim their concern is "free speech" not "free beer" and at the same time use a non-free OS.
Now the same thing could hypothetically apply for people who use Linux/FreeBSD, and the fact that their OS is free (speech) is simply a coincidence. However since they are consistent in their choice of free software, there is no compelling evidence to suggest the same hypocrisy.
Your point about freeware software isn't even worth commenting and it is also a boomerang which can very well be applied to open source
No it can't. And that's the huge difference between free beer software (freeware) and free speech software (open source) in order to survive, open source software must remain competitive. It has to evolve or die, there is no resting on your laurels. The DRM argument, which anyway has been put there just for the sake of flaming
That's because it's obvious you don't understand the arguement. DRM does not only apply to music, although that's were the media often focuses on it. DRM is a matter of not being able to use your software, if the "keymaster" company, that is the company who control the servers you authenticate against, goes bankrupt. In the most recent case again, yes this was Yahoo Music, but imagine Valve going Chapter 11, who is going to keep steam running? Imagine Microsoft going chapter 11, who is going to keep your Windows XP authenticated? I have successfully used Eudora since the early nineties, long before Ximian Evolution and Thunderbird were even born.
Good for you. Unfortunately it fails on two counts. First of all Eudora was shareware. Secondly Eudora doesn't support Microsofts Exchange Protocol, or any of the calendar and document sharing, so is not by any stretch of the word a replacement for Outlook.