Cannot show your support without agreeing that every RMS's argument was reasonable
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You can:
From that point on, you may check how credible the evidence you have is. Both for arguments for and arguments against.
I have a hypothesis, but not more. Imagine you know someone (Marvin) well. And know he's old, frail, peaceful guy, who travels with his wife. You're confident and write random stuff on your mind, because you don't expect the widespread reaction. You don't do a full analysis, you don't request information from others, you don't gather evidence: you expect a bunch of people arguing over it and getting information. Your phrasing offends people and they make aggressive conclusions about you. They do, because people tend to. There are theories for vested interest in whole conversation, as well: corporations aren't super happy about GNU GPL.
If we were able to have a discussion about RMS openly and politely, none of what you see would happen. We attempted to establish a conversation initially and it failed, many, many times, for what it's worth. |
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I adore efforts that were made to keep the text unbiased for the most part, but the line:
implies a valuation of RMS's arguments one shouldn't be able to make without a thorough research. Which is, frankly, doesn't seem to be possible.
Also, by itself
is a bit too emotionally colored as far as I'm concerned.
1st issue could be fixed by removing "reasonable" part.
2nd issue could be more of a personal taste. And I cannot raise and argument that this formula do not reflect the situation.
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