I'm not defending GE. I'm defending the points made in this thread that happen to by in sync with what he's saying. There's a difference. It appears Shadow, Miss Information, and you take this all to personal. I'm trying to keep it on the facts/opinions. And hoping to avoid the personal attacks, but I do call a spade a spade when it's obvious what it is. Based mainly on what I've seen in this thread Miss Information has confirmed that he allowed a lie to go on for months which can be assumed it provided miss information to many lurkers and Freepers who were just browsing the thread(s). such behavior is appauling. If GE or anyone does similar things I'd be all over it. Especially if they continued to try and defend such behavior. Continued lying as a way to win a point is wrong and should be shunned by all. Setting up a strawman or floating a false point is one thing but carrying on a lie for months is just WRONG! And the fact that those that defend Miss Information won't admit it reveals a lot.
In battle, do you believe in deceiving the enemy so that he will hang himself with is own blind bravado? It is a debate tactic. Not a nice one for sure, but with his abuse he deserved it. You saw his ad hominem rants and libel against fellow FReepers, and you claim not to want this to be personal?
Yes, I was fed up with his constant paranoia and thread hijacking, but he was constantly ruining threads. Go back to Linux threads during the time of his ban, and notice how civil they were, even notice how people were commenting how civil they were without him. We actually had discussion at those times and polite disagreement, not constant paranoid rants and libel towards anyone who didn't think Linux was evil incarnate.
Go back and read the many negative comments I've made against Richard Stallman. It is clear to any sane person that I do not like him, do not like his overall agenda of ridding the world of most proprietary software, do not like his efforts to control hardware, and especially do not like him having an extreme philosophical approach to software. Then read GE's libel towards me, calling me a devout follower of Stallman and a supporter of his leftist agenda.
Now do you see where this is coming from? Just search for any thread with Linux in the title and watch the abuses GE is known for, the abuses he was banned for. Then you will understand why I did it.