Quite so. As I have said quite frequently, it is not the disagreement in views that its troublesome – it is the dishonesty in the support of those disagreements that offends me.

Fail #0 (Fail The Zero-th?)

The hypocrisy/hubris/solipsism of denouncing others’ actions of denouncing others’ actions… If one were to accept Mr Brockmeier’s argument as valid, I should think that same argument (i.e., the problem ‘is that they are taking an entirely negative and counter-productive approach to the problem’) would equally apply to Mr Brockmeier’s “marketing campaign” opposed to Defective By Design’s.

If he believes it wrong to denounce that with which one disagrees then he should not have expressed his own objection — unless it’s only wrong if other people do it (or perhaps only when the Free Software Foundation does it).