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What the author doesn't realize is that he, too, is being an asshole simply by dismissing all these people who have different opinions or a different moral compass from him. Calling someone a "gun nut" and trivializing the change from GPLv2 to GPLv3 doesn't automatically make them wrong.



Sorry, perhaps it didn't quite work. Too subtle?

I was trying to combine the insinuations that we are generally too ready to call each other names and that all our judgements are relative.


Gun nut eh. I say, the right tool for the right job. I use a chain saw to cut fallen trees into logs. Therefore I am a chain saw nut.

Incidentally, the author of that article may or may not be guilty of crimes in Sweden.




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