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To: Golden Eagle
LOL, most open source zealots despise Marc Fleury from JBOSS simply because he wants to make a profit. From Linux Insider:

We need to work on your terminology. Rabid Stallmanites attack anything that is not pure in Stallman's vision. Those are the people about whom both you and I probably have the same point of view. There is no point in bringing them up in an argument against us because we agree on them.

Then we get to the people who think open source (in general, not just the GPL) is a good practical idea, can produce grat software, save money, and even make money. They don't have a loyalty to any one license, although they may prefer one on practical terms (I like the MPL). Unlike you, they recognize that an author has the right to release his works under whatever license he chooses, and we respect that right. We'll call these people the Torvaldists given the public clashes the practical Torvalds has had with the idealist Stallman.

I haven't seen one FReeper I'd categorize as a Stallmanite, yet you continually try to portray us as such. This is a source of most of your demonstrated lies.

20 posted on 04/11/2006 6:01:14 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
I haven't seen one FReeper I'd categorize as a Stallmanite, yet you continually try to portray us as such.

Well you obviously prefer his clones to bonafide Unix like Solaris and OSX (which are open source in their own ways), and defend him constantly, why shouldn't you be identified as a Stallmanite? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, flies like a duck, it probably is a duck.

25 posted on 04/11/2006 7:28:36 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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