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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by DTND on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:52AM (#17599784)
>It seems weird that this guy will try to promote his product to the Linux community and chooses to do it by insulting its user base.

Please don't act like you are a representative sample of all linux users. FOSS centric guys are vocal but distributions like Ubuntu became very popular in part because they included and automatically installed proprietary wifi and GPU drivers right from their installer CD.

That you feel insulted reading someone talk about "fundamentalist FOSS" doesn't mean every linux user feels insulted reading the sentence.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by TuringTest on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:08AM (#17601680)
Linux users that accept some closed-source code won't feel insulted. I get that.

So, it is OK to insult FOSS centric guys because they'll never be his clients?

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by hitekker on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:37PM (#17603267)
The FOSS guys I know have strong convictions but don't generally try to jam their views down the throat of others.

The FOSS fundamentalists, on the other hand, seem to seek the mantle of victimhood so that they can gleefully unleash their vitriol.

Thankfully, the former outnumber the latter 10-1.

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