Linus *occasionally* doesn't offend people. RMS seems to revel in it. His message is basically sound, but his delivery is offputting. (To wit, his rants about saying "Linux" vs. "Gnu/Linux"; it just comes off as petty and eye-roll worthy.)<div>
<br></div><div>And, since I'm proud of this, I say this as an EFF.org member.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Justin Goldberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justgold79@gmail.com" target="_blank">justgold79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Linus is a hero but Stallman is universally railed against, even<br>
though he says the same thing about the word doc format?<br>
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Hmmmm....<br>
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On 6/24/12, Michael Campbell <<a href="mailto:michael.campbell@gmail.com">michael.campbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Man, I want that as a desktop background so bad. Unfortunately, my "work<br>
> machine" I often travel to clients with, and as my clients are bankers<br>
> (sometimes the tech guys, sometimes not), I have a feeling someone would<br>
> decide to play the "I'm offended" card on me.<br>
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> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ted W <<a href="mailto:ted@techmachine.net">ted@techmachine.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Jun 23, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:<br>
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>> Relevant desktop wallpaper: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/GBa6y.jpg" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/GBa6y.jpg</a><br>
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