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great! name calling and straw mengreat! name calling and straw menPosted Oct 25, 2004 21:46 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462)In reply to: great! name calling and straw men by stevenj Parent article: How to be a Free Software zealot (NewsForge) Wow, you read a lot more into this article than I do. Since you did't get it, here's the definition of "zealot": a fanatically committed person -- no offense here, unless it is taken. Contrast that with the definition of moron. Obviously the article was meant to drive home a point by exaggerating it. It was deliberately worded to reflect a "typical" conversation between a "zealot" and what one could call an "average Open Source community member". One could say the zealot does not come across as the cleverest or most rational of people, so the article is a bit unfair, but that doesn't justify the kind of comments that this article has received here, and this portrayal of the zealot is, again, deliberate. You swallowed it hook, line and sinker -- but there was no bait. (By the way: the quality of sites like Slashdot, and to a lesser extent LWN, is not only determined by the articles that are selected by the editors, but also by the comments of their readers.)
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