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by aw3c2 4896 days ago
What I tried to hint at is that you can play this infinitely. When you are equaling apples with oranges then you can an unlimited number of differences between those two to show that this apple is not really an orange. It makes no sense.

Blindly dismissing the benefits of free software just because some other aspect of computing hardware is also important is short-sighted and/or silly.
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GraemeLion 4896 days ago
OH! Right :D Yes, I mean you can go on ad nauseum with it, definitely. But RMS is saying he's a better person because of this one singular thing. He's the one who makes the claim that he's better than me because he uses 100% free software.

I don't dismiss that using 100% free software is a moral good. But I do dismiss the "better than me as a person" claim because he's more ethical in just one area. (Or maybe more, but he only addresses that ONE area.)

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