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

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

Posted Apr 8, 2008 2:22 UTC (Tue) by nanday (guest, #51465)
In reply to: GNU/Linux: Too Much about Hate, Not Enough about Pride (LinuxPlanet) by sam_vee
Parent article: 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")


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

Posted Apr 8, 2008 6:17 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think Two Minutes' Hating about Microsoft is an excellent thing for 
people with nothing else to do to fill their poor deprived lives with.

Personally I've got better things to do (hell, beating my head on a wall 
every twenty seconds sounds like it would be more enjoyable than *that*, 
and that's by no means at the top of my things-to-do list! :) )

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