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Windows comes with quite the advanced firewall built in. Why not use that?
The built in firewall is proprietary, which is enough of a reason to prefer a free software alternative.
What's the point? Any free software alternatives will still rely on the proprietary TCP/IP stack in Windows.
The point of software freedom is, and has been for the last 40 years, the four freedoms. Replacing proprietary software with a free alternative is always worth it, in my opinion.
Sure, ideally the entire operating system would be replaced with a free alternative, but not everyone is willing or able to make such a big change right out of the gate. Windows users deserve freedom, too. The FSF calls this "climbing the freedom ladder".