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.
No 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.
