[ale] [Kinda OT] The "TalkMaster", Freedom and Free Software

[Chuck Payne]

was = was not, sorry.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:53 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>> I don’t know how many of you actually spend (waste?) time listening to
>> talk radio, but I do on occasion.  One of the things I spend (again,
>> waste?) my time listening to in the car or when I think to fire up the
>> stream on my computer is Neal Boortz.
>>
>> Now, he seems to take the position that freedom is paramount and that we
>> should all exercise it.  He constantly complains, for example, about
>> “government schools” and how they do not really provide an education,
>> much less equip our young to exercise their freedom.
>>
>> However, he seems to spend an awful lot of time pushing products for
>> Windows in the spots on his show.  I have never even once heard him or
>> any of his sheep call in and mention that there is free software which
>> enables people to exercise their fundamental freedoms with regard to
>> their computing platforms.  In fact, it seems that his platform is
>> nothing more than a façade, where he is quite happy to push things that
>> cause people to become less free as a result of the use of the things
>> that he pushes.
>>
>> I find myself wondering:  Is this because he doesn’t know about it?  Or
>> is he insincere?
>>
>>        --- Mike
>>
>> --
>> A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
>> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>>                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>>
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>
> Probably none of his sponors use free software, and he does work for
> Cox when I was there was to trill about opensource software.
>
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