Comments on: Linux, fundamentalism and the many distros (part 1) http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Linux, fundamentalism and the many distros (part 2) at The Tlog http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/#comment-11304 Linux, fundamentalism and the many distros (part 2) at The Tlog Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:05:55 +0000 http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/#comment-11304 [...] Register « Linux, fundamentalism and the many distros (part 1) [...] [...] Register « Linux, fundamentalism and the many distros (part 1) [...]

]]> By: Pedro Timóteo http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/#comment-11241 Pedro Timóteo Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:54:50 +0000 http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/#comment-11241 Carlos, when did that happen to you? Have you been accosted in the street by Free Software fundamentalists, threatening you with eternal damnation if you don't repent? Have they bothered you at home, like Jehovah's Witnesses? Have you ever seen a ragged, foul-smelling, long bearded street preacher ranting about the evils of binary-only drivers? Do you know of any Free Software-related violence? Lynch mobs? Killings? More realistically, have you ever been insulted in a forum, or in a chat room, or <i>anywhere</i>, for not using Free Software exclusively? Have you ever been prevented from using Windows whenever you want, however you want? Somehow, I doubt it. Those "Free Software guys" have never done <b>anything</b> to you. They simply have other priorities. They care more about some issues than <strong>you</strong> do, and, for some reason, that makes them "fanatics". Carlos, when did that happen to you? Have you been accosted in the street by Free Software fundamentalists, threatening you with eternal damnation if you don’t repent? Have they bothered you at home, like Jehovah’s Witnesses? Have you ever seen a ragged, foul-smelling, long bearded street preacher ranting about the evils of binary-only drivers?

Do you know of any Free Software-related violence? Lynch mobs? Killings?

More realistically, have you ever been insulted in a forum, or in a chat room, or anywhere, for not using Free Software exclusively?

Have you ever been prevented from using Windows whenever you want, however you want?

Somehow, I doubt it. Those “Free Software guys” have never done anything to you.

They simply have other priorities. They care more about some issues than you do, and, for some reason, that makes them “fanatics”.

]]> By: Carlos Rodrigues http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/#comment-11145 Carlos Rodrigues Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:29:35 +0000 http://www.thetlog.net/2006/11/03/linux-fundamentalism-and-the-many-distros-part-1/#comment-11145 "I don’t care about software freedom as much as Richard Stallman and others, but I understand why it’s important to them." Fundamentalists and zealots don't just "care", they try to shove their beliefs down other people's throats at every single opportunity, destroying the credibility of the community as a whole. Then, people like me get that funny looks whenever we bring up the Linux/FOSS subject in a conversation, like we have leprosy or something. You can thank the likes of RMS for that. “I don’t care about software freedom as much as Richard Stallman and others, but I understand why it’s important to them.”

Fundamentalists and zealots don’t just “care”, they try to shove their beliefs down other people’s throats at every single opportunity, destroying the credibility of the community as a whole.

Then, people like me get that funny looks whenever we bring up the Linux/FOSS subject in a conversation, like we have leprosy or something. You can thank the likes of RMS for that.

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