[antiRepublicrat]

But you always want to use them to distract from the discussion at hand, and protect your favorite leftists like Stallman

You point to open source licenses as "evil" in vague "they're stealing our stuff" terms, I point out how proprietary licenses are more evil in concrete "They take our rights" terms.

For all you denigrate it, open source doesn't have the problem of taking the rights of users. Your beloved proprietary software does. So go ahead, defend Microsoft on this.

[Golden Eagle]

proprietary licenses are more evil in concrete "They take our rights" terms

Obviously only to those such as yourself who seem to think you have rights to someone else's property by default. Otherwise you couldn't possibly see someone who is protecting THEIR property as taking YOUR rights away.