> They are simply saying they hope this mild inconvenience If you read the post, you would know this is not a "mild inconvenience" for him. If you truly believe that, then I would contend you haven't experienced what it's like to lose a significant amount of personal data.

> is enough to wake him (and others) up to the necessity of free software. What free software was he and everyone he's communicated with in the past 5 years supposed to be aware of?