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Yeah, agreed that it's a shitty, though effective, rhetorical technique. I just think haroldp overreacted to it.
by michael_storm 11y ago
Yeah, agreed that it's a shitty, though effective, rhetorical technique. I just think haroldp overreacted to it.
- eropple 11y agoIt can be effective, but you need a much, much stronger kind of charisma and a better grasp of rhetoric than Stallman or your typical FSF zealot. When delivered by somebody who gets spittle-flecked about this stuff, it makes you crazy and a jerk, instead of just a jerk.