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Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---My attitude being: I won't install non-free software on my computer so long as I can help it. And fortunetly there is plenty enough free software about the place that I can help it.
OK so obviously you see my attitude towards non-free software as a bad thing.
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Yes I do.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Hold it against me, not against anyone else, especially the "Linux" advocates.
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I can't help but feel that when representitaves of proprietary software companies encounter people like your self on Linux forums they form a the oppinion that the Linux userbase doesn't want their software.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Some amount of Muslims have been involved in terorist activity (bad), don't hold that against every Muslim in the world (especially the Christian-Muslims :P).
I dunno if they're allowd to or what.
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Well if this small number of muslims stopped being terrorists then they would stop giving Islam a bad name, just like if you dropped your self righteous attitude towards proprietary software you would stop giving Linux users a bad name.
P.S. what do mean by "Christian-Muslims"?
piratePenguin:
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What are you smoking?
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What, have you got something against Christian-Muslims?
Only messing. The Christian-Muslims are the Linux-GNU/Linux advocates. They don't exist. I was joking.
:p
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Yes I do.
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Good. Well, let me explain why I have this attitude towards non-free software then.
Fundamentally, the developers of non-free software are selfish (And I don't care what their cause is. Making a living or whatnot. It doesn't change the fact.) and inherently evil (Maybe not so much as Hitler was, but I never suggested that.).
Selfishness/evil might well be the basis of capitalism, and I might well see selfishness/evil everywhere around me, but that is no excuse to excuse it. So I don't excuse it.
I complain! I fight! And when there is an alternative (which there is for software), I support the alternative instead.
Am I a luney? Should I wake up to the real world? Well, I am awake, and I'm living in the same world as you.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I can't help but feel that when representitaves of proprietary software companies encounter people like your self on Linux forums they form a the oppinion that the Linux userbase doesn't want their software.
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Well, tough shit for them.
A more educated opinion would be that a (small) subset of GNU/Linux users won't use install or use non-free software on their own computers.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Well if this small number of muslims stopped being terrorists then they would stop giving Islam a bad name
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Well those Muslim terrorists don't (AFAIK (which isn't much)) have much of a cause.
Well free software advocates like myself do.
And some people will say that we give GNU/Linux or "Linux" a bad name. Others will say that we give GNU/Linux a good name. It's like anything. Some will like, some will dislike.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---just like if you dropped your self righteous attitude towards proprietary software you would stop giving Linux users a bad name.
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I'd also stop giving them a good name, and be giving up on the cause.
hm_murdock:
Penguin,
What he means is that you can be firmly against proprietary software, and not be constantly badmouthing it.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: hm_murdock ---Penguin,
What he means is that you can be firmly against proprietary software, and not be constantly badmouthing it.
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Where do I "constantly" badmouth non-free software? I just don't install it on my computer and support it as least as I possibly.
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