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jacobwb (jacobwb)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2012 20:15:13 EDT 
jacobwb
Linus says "Fuck You" to nVidia. So what. RMS has been figuratively saying "Fuck You" to all proprietary software companies for decades. !fs -
rysiek (rysiek)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2012 20:20:59 EDT 
rysiek
@jacobwb @rms has been saying that figuratively; Linus' action will make a good meme. this might mean bad PR for nVidia. !linux !fs -
patrickniedzielski (patrickniedzielski)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2012 20:27:50 EDT 
patrickniedzielski
@jacobwb RMS has been saying that proprietary software is evil, Linus said that nVidia is hard to work with. Apples and oranges. -
jacobwb (jacobwb)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2012 20:49:17 EDT
jacobwb
Yeah. I hate how people are making it out as if Linus stuck up for software freedom, when really he was as pragmatic as ever. -
csolisr (csolisr)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2012 22:54:21 EDT 
csolisr
@jacobwb To be more exact, @rms has been against proprietary software *and* hardware. -
rajitsingh (rajitsingh)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Jun-2012 14:55:58 EDT 
rajitsingh
@jacobwb One's ideological, the other's pragmatic. -
furzknoten (furzknoten)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Jun-2012 15:26:16 EDT 
furzknoten
Yeah, but people find it more inviting, when Linus talks about fucking. ;-) -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Jun-2012 18:52:13 EDT 
lxoliva
@jacobwb why is @RMS is criticized for his stance, while Linus is praised for both accepting and rejecting the bad stuff? -
lxoliva (lxoliva)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Jun-2012 18:56:04 EDT
lxoliva
@jacobwb s/pragmatic/apolitical|amoral/; accepting something harmful is by no means pragmatic
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