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To: antiRepublicrat
Not only are you a troll, but youÂ’re not a very good one. You should at least have some very slight knowledge of the subject on which you are trolling.

Ridiculous of course, I'm keeping the thread on topic despite your endless attempts to divert it off into unrelated rechnical minutia. The topic is do you support intellectual property protections on US technology, or do you support radical leftists who want all software to be given away for free to everyone on Earth. You clearly want US software given away, including to communist countries, and even support line by line copying as in the case of China's Red Flag Linux. That is the subject, and no amount of you twisting or flailing around in desperation like usual is going to change it LOL.

177 posted on 05/15/2007 2:37:26 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
I'm keeping the thread on topic despite your endless attempts to divert it off into unrelated rechnical minutia. The topic is do you support intellectual property protections on US technology

You said Mac is better than Linux because Apple is a "US company." I simply showed you how OS X is comprised of a lot of free software (most under an even more permissive license than the GPL, some under the GPL like the core of its browser), so your comparison sucks.

The topic is do you support intellectual property protections on US technology

I support the constitutionally-mandated rights of authors. We do not have the right to criticize the choice of an author to make his software free or proprietary, as that is his constitutional right. Your disagreement with this principle shows you do not really support "IP" rights.

You and Stallman are yet again in agreement on a subject, thinking you have the right to criticize that exercise of a right.

You clearly want US software given away, including to communist countries

You can't stand on the fence anymore. Is Linux a "foreign clone" or US software that is given away? You also cannot criticize Linux without also criticizing BSD, Firefox and other free software.

184 posted on 05/16/2007 7:14:42 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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