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Thanks for being respectful - i appreciate it.

Since you've explained this so clearly, I guess I would pinpoint my disagreement at the assumption that the free software movement will never have the number of users that Apple will, and the idea that you have no choice.

Whilst the argument about types of freedom and the goal of free software seems sound, both of these other points seem to be relatively arbitrary decisions that have nothing to do with Apple, and everything to do with a sense of powerlessness and failure in free software.

I think it's sad because I don't see why either statement should be true, and I think believing them does far more to undermine the goal than to help it.