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0u Alexandre Oliva

@lxoliva blame 140. part of freedom is that you can't force people to take it- it has to suffice that the option stays available to them

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my least favorite kind of debate is when people troll you and then when you get annoyed they say "see? you're unreasonable and emotional!"

0u frankenspock

@frankenspock there's a war, but it's fascists against schoolteachers. calling free software advocates soldiers is a pointless stereotype

0u frankenspock

@frankenspock i don't buy that. why would anyone lie about that?

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wikipedia does handle those two subjects pretty well. not sure they're as npov about it as people who strive to be ridiculously neutral

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for example, creationism is not science, and "jews for jesus" are not jewish. but if your pov is totally neutral...

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npov is a protocol, not a form of enlightenment. it means you acknowledge stances that we know are bullshit, just to "be fair."

0u frankenspock

@frankenspock neutral is an extreme for some people. anything other than neutral is rejected, regardless of truth or merit

0u frankenspock

@frankenspock not lied about- some are mistaken. and it's not just that i like it. one thing is more ethical, even if it's not what they say

0u Ravi Pinjala

@rxp no it's not. everyone is wrong about something. i'd rather be wrong about the merits of free software than about the merits of... drm?

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most debate about the merits of software freedom from"open source"is ad hominem about fanaticism/extremism/amateur psychology

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first people go out of their way to give people a free option, then people bitch that it's too free and how dare he be so unreasonable?

0u Richard Stallman Political Notes , Alexandre Oliva

people can and some will talk shit about @rms all day long, i've really had it with the total ignorance about @lxoliva though, it's bs.

0u reality

@reality funny how all open source advocates have phd's in psychology. worst kind of ad hominem, net.diagnosis is

0u Dr. Roy Schestowitz

@schestowitz for microsoft it's always uphill trying to sell locked-down hyped-up pre-obsolete junk. apple makes it looks easy.

0u Glyn Moody

@glynmoody better to sell olpc's i think

0u drew Roberts

@zotz hiring librarians for archive.org would be like hiring editors for wikipedia- you'll get much more done having the internet volunteer