| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
Nice ad hominem attackNice ad hominem attackPosted Oct 24, 2004 19:29 UTC (Sun) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: Nice ad hominem attack by BrucePerens Parent article: How to be a Free Software zealot (NewsForge)
It seems to me that he's specifically not counting the FSF as zealots. He and his employer both contribute to them, and he presumably wouldn't support people spewing rhetoric he felt was detrimental to his (and their) cause. Furthermore, the FSF's position is, as you point out, not what he says the zealots say. And he never actually accuses any particular people or groups of being zealots. He probably thought that the introduction about the FSF would be sufficient to imply that he didn't mean either them or anyone less idealistic.
So I think he actually means people he encounters in his daily life or in slashdot comments who tend to oppose anything the FSF says anything bad about (beyond the FSF's actual issue with it), quote RMS inappropriately, and forget that the point of Free Software includes software and not just licensing.
(Log in to post comments)
|
|
||||||||||||