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So is Anonymous going to be the Malcolm X to RMS's Martin Luther King, Jr.? Shift the Overton Window to make the GPL look like the most moderate, reasonable option?


No, because this actually has nothing to do with FOSS.


There's a big, big difference between making the code you write freely available and stealing other peoples' code in order to make it public.


Yes, quite like the difference between nonviolent protest for integration and armed militant separatism as independent attempts at dissolving the white man's oppression of african-americans.

You missed his analogy completely.


No I didn't. He was trying to imply these things are somehow poles on the same scale. They're not. For one thing, FOSS is already seen as perfectly reasonable by everyone but PR flacks from Microsoft and Oracle.

It's more like your idiot kid brother robs a bank, and now nobody in the neighborhood trusts you any more.


Have you read any of Stallman's more political and moral manifestos?




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