GNU/Linux: Too Much about Hate, Not Enough about Pride (LinuxPlanet)

Speaking of being a contrarian:

1. The Free Software Foundation started in the 1980s, but it hardly justified the name of
"movement" until the 1990s. I wrote exactly what I meant to say.

2. Adding "er" to a word is the common comparative in English. "Securer" is correct according
to the descriptive principles of grammar that I tend to follow.

3. Considering my own views on people like Peale
(http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/winning-frie...),
I find the comment about "the arguments of a marketing person" hilarious. The comment is meant
as a putdown, I suppose, but since the view established at the start of the piece is
psychological, it's too inaccurate to be effective. Read the piece, and you'll find that I
never deny Microsoft's behavior -- I just try not to become obsessed by it.

4. If the conventional wisdom is that you must always be having a Two Minutes' Hate about
Microsoft, then call me a contrarian. But while I don't mind going against the conventional
wisdom, I never do so unless I'm expressing what I actually think. Again, I suppose you aim to
insult, but why would I aim for traffic when I get paid the same no matter what the traffic? 

Moreover, to think that I have anything to do when with the pagination, especially when the
article didn't even appear originally on LinuxPlanet is 
simply absurd. 

But, if "sam_vee" is the person I suspect, then I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised by the
ad hominem attacks at every opportunity; his own writing practices the same dubious tactics,
and this isn't the first time he's attacked me.

- Bruce Byfield ("nanday")