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by ptero 2767 days ago
My 2c: the author has something to say and I mostly agree with many of the things he is saying. However, his choice of labels (fundamentalist mentality / reddit / FOSS defender / etc.) hurts intelligent discussion -- whoever is disagreeing would be tempted to counterattack with a label ("copyright nazi", etc.) rather than discuss the post on merits.

Maybe author hopes that choice of words would stimulate discussion, but I think all it stimulates are flame wars reusing old slogans. So the content may be interesting, but the form struggles to make it underwhelming.