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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by stcredzero on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:30AM (#864186)
Being pure and ignorant of other opinions is the easy way out.

There is nothing in ideological purity that demands ignorance of other opinions. And just because you're cognizant of someone's opinion, doesn't mean you have to agree. RMS can say what he wants, and I'm sure he's not ignorant of other's opinions. If you don't like what he says, don't do what he says. If you don't like his philosophy, maybe you shouldn't use GNU software? He doesn't force you to use any software. (Which is more than can be said for lots of corporations.)

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by yan on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:47AM (#864227)
That's exactly opposite of what I think is actually going on. I don't want to get into a GPL vs BSD argument, but he does say people should not use commercial software, thus limiting their options to often less useful free software equivalents. And corporations do give you choice in usage as you can always opt to not buy software from them. A well-regulated commercial market is all about choice.
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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by gloob on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:20AM (#864322)
he does say people should not use commercial software

Commercial != non-free. Stallman doesn't, to my knowledge, have an issue with the former. He rather dislikes the latter.

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