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> On Oct 13, 12:05 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> > On Oct 13, 11:26 am, Ender2070 <blo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On 10/13/2011 1:20 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
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>> >> > On Oct 13, 6:57 am, Ender2070<blo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> On 10/13/2011 6:46 AM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> >> >> Are you done bashing a dead capitalist?
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>> >> > A few posters have been plastering anti-Stallman posts over this
>> >> > newsgroup for quite awhile now, as if RMS is the end all-be all; maybe
>> >> > Roy decided showing the "face" of Apple is a good way of getting them
>> >> > to stop. Turnabout is fairplay, right?
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>> >> If steve jobs was alive it might be fair play.
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>> > So, in your mind, if someone dies you can't voice what you believe
>> > about them? Your answer appears to be 'yes'.
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>> > Don't get confused here, I don't agree with what Stallman said about
>> > Jobs or computing and freedom, etc., I'm merely asking you the
>> > question I am asking above. While it may be socially unacceptable to
>> > engage in this manner so soon after a death, I don't disagree with
>> > people having their say at any point in time ( I do feel it's
>> > disrespectful, though). If your answer to the question is 'yes' then I
>> > respectfully disagree with your stance on turnabout as being based on
>> > a person being alive or not.
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>> When someone dies and people in the media lie about him (partly played
>> up by a PR campaign), there is reason to intervene. Steve is not
>> an ordinary person, he is a _public figure_. Not the same rules apply.
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> I completely agree, it goes with the territory. The question here is
> really about what constitues a lie. I see no point in going down that
> road because it's a hairball. I'm not going to say Stallman lied about
> "freedom" and the like, I will say that I completely disagree with his
> assessment on that and that there are viewpoints Stallman is obviously
> overlooking as he focuses on his own... as is his right. Conversely,
> others, like me, have the right to point out when he, or anyone, is
> overlooking these other viewpoints.
Fair enough, but I don't understand why you focus so much on Stallman.
He's hardly _at all_ as "public" as Jobs. Heck, he has no money for PR
agencies to groom his image.
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