However he hasn't been able to get rid of my handy little gifs and jpegs equating the "free software" leaders with Karl Marx yet even though he complains about them. You posted to me: I think it is really time to cool it.
I suggested that if you were really committed to doing so, you would cease those postings. In a subsequent reply, I explained why: that they achieved little except to encourage the sniping (which then escalate into personal attacks).
Personally, I think they are just lame. Maybe some people find them funny, or something. If you are sincere about reducing the political vitriol, you'll stop posting them. But, it appears it was an empty gesture.
Maybe he is not as dangerous a censor as he thinks.
I don't tolerate certain behavior. A couple of people in this thread have lowered themselves to that behavior. I can't censor them, but I can point out violations of the posting guidelines. I didn't make the guidelines, but I try to abide by them and expect others to do the same. Ultimately, it's up to someone else to enforce them.
The Linux people have hardly been little angels in these areas themselves. I often find full scale profanity (NOT initialized or mild) in their posts and one even practices symbolic obscenity (using the parentheses and a period to represent the human buttocs) along with the personal attacks that you often complain about so much as well. In fact I was getting ready to call the moderators myself on some of this activity but Bush2000 talked me out of it citing the First Amendment and the Political Correctness aspects of doing such a thing (Ironic isn't it that someone who you are trying to get banned may be responsible for your staying here.) ;-)
As for my (Any Free Software/Open Source Leader) = Karl Marx graphical parody series it is actually in direct response to this Pictorial false accusation of a Microsoft Conspiracy with Darl McBride a few threads back. An accusation for which the Linux People have no real proof!!! by the LINUX PROPONANT TechJunkYard (Once again YOU are the ones who started the false criminal accusations problem here with the unproven "pump 'n' dump" and Microsoft conspiracy theories.)
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Oh, speaking of blowhards... here's one who wants to steal the IP rights of thousands of Linux hackers... |
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And here are his friends, Bozo and Bubbles. |
There is PLENTY of actual criminal and near criminal activity at Microsoft that you will find proof of here
www.billparish.com
if you want to look at a REAL "pump 'n' dump" in action. This guy isn't even anti M$. He just wants them to clean up their obviously fraudulant stock and stock option issuance practices.