A zealous advocate of free (as opposed to proprietary) software.
The freetard's entire identity is based around using free and open source software such as Linux, and he spends every waking hour of every day writing self-serving propaganda as to why he is superior to anyone who uses software whose licensing does not allow you to reverse engineer/copy/modify and then release your own version of somebody else's work.
"Hey guys, can you help me get this game installed on Windows 10?"
"You use Micro$oft Windows? Don't you know that software doesn't respect your freedoms? You should use GNU/Linux like me! BTW, I use Arch."
"Oh great, here come the freetards to derail the thread."
A person whose ability to make rational decisions is impaired by the possibility of receiving something for free.
A freetard would visiting a fair on free admission day, even though the fair is overcrowded, he/she spends way more time in line and he/she loses a day of pay which far exceeds the cost of admission.
A freetard would use a broken, buggy piece of software when a quality option is available for a few dollars and would quickly pay for itself in time and frustration saved.
As an Internet discussion loosely related to home computers grows longer, the probablility of someone mentioning Linux approaches 1.
An example of Freetard's Law in a heavily-summarized forum discussion
Person A: "Hey, does anyone know why GZDoom freezes after around 20 minutes of gameplay on my setup?"
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Person B: "Yeah, have you tried this build of GZDoom optimized for your line of GPUs?"
Person A: "Not yet, but I will, thanks."
Person C: "This isn't even a problem if you have a half-decent window manager on Linux."
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