Preaching to the choir

Preaching to the choir

>When the FSF raises it's shrill voice, and proclaims everybody but their own followers as wrong and evil,

They don't. They say proprietary software is divisive and harmful to society. If you want to argue that, fine, but please don't set up a strawman.

>they harm not only their own cause, but also through extension the whole of the open source environment.

No, you think their course harms your personal interests, which may or may not be so.

>As always, when you have a very vocal radicalised minority, they only serve to polarise views and preclude any possibility of compromise. Extremeism, whatever shape it takes, is simply not a good thing.

I'm sorry, but from my experience the "Extremism" is usually not to be found in this "vocal radicalised minority".

In case you have failed to notice it, a lot of the "long haired, bearded hippies" are raising an eyebrow at this action. And frankly, for someone riling against "Extremeism" you are dealing out a fair amount of inflammatory language and insulting rhetoric.

As for the rest of your rant about "profesionalism". I'm not sure whether a "sharp professional consultant" like yourself will ever graps this, but your business-case is simply not the FSF's ethical imperative.

Yes, that was ad hominem and irrelevant. Not very nice now, is it ?