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Yes, quite like the difference between nonviolent protest for integration and armed militant separatism as independent attempts at dissolving the white man's op
by blasdel 15y ago
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.
- tsotha 15y agoNo 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.
- derleth 15y agoHave you read any of Stallman's more political and moral manifestos?