The problem is that on FR we tend to assume we're talking to intelligent, rational people. I mean, it's not like we're on DU, right?
Maybe that's it. I think I've discovered GE's origin.
People have called GE a Microsoft employee, but I've always disagreed. Microsoft might do some nasty things, but they never go for stupid. Remember the idiotic Ken Brown attack on Linux? Microsoft distanced themselves really fast on that one, and they've been staying far away from SCO. No, Microsoft is too smart a company to want to have GE as a cheerleader or FUD spewer.
However, having GE as a long-time FReeper does bring great discredit upon Free Republic. He gives perfect ammunition for the DUmmies to say "Look how stupid FReepers are!" He must be a DU plant.
DU? How did you miss my link the other day from there? Remember, when you took your normal side defending the leftists?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x665385
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use
By STEVE LOHR
Published: July 5, 2004
In a campaign season of polarization, when Republicans and Democrats seem far apart on issues like Iraq, the economy and leadership style, it is perhaps not surprising that the parties find themselves on different sides in the politics of software as well.
The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainly on the technology of the computing counterculture: open-source software that is distributed free, and improved and debugged by far-flung networks of programmers.
In the other corner, the Web sites of President Bush and the Republican National Committee run on software supplied by the corporate embodiment of big business - Microsoft.
The two sides are defined largely by their approach to intellectual property. Fans of open-source computing regard its software as a model for the future of business, saying that its underlying principle of collaboration will eventually be used in pharmaceuticals, entertainment and other industries whose products are tightly protected by patents or copyrights....
Yeah. Don't know what his origin is, but it's obvious that his motivation is not driven by his personal beliefs. No one can be that fanatical about software.