But often the sides come into conflict. For example, most recently, the Stallman-esque group started a massive marketing campaign for Theora--it's free, so we

But often the sides come into conflict. For example, most recently, the Stallman-esque group started a massive marketing campaign for Theora--it's free, so we should use it. This caused the Linus-esque group incredible aggravation, because they cannot understand why someone would want to promote something that is technically inferior in many ways. Equally, the Stallman-esque group cannot understand why the Linus-esque group would even consider using multimedia formats covered by patents--why would anyone do that?--it's against the open source philosophy--and away the argument goes again.