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by cybervegan 2767 days ago
But Free Software is a reaction against Proprietary Software... it exists because some people don't want to embrace PS.

Hey ho. You go your way and I'll go mine.

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> Hey ho. You go your way and I'll go mine.

That is the attitude that I can get behind, however neither side of this argument is really prepared to do that. In my experience, FLOSS advocates do appear to have a more fundamentalist all or nothing approach when espousing their opinion online, often aggressively. Ideology is great, but it does lead to book burning on occasion.