Terminology An old and reliable debate trick is to chose the terms. Prime example: “pro-life”; if you disagree you must be either “anti-life” or “pro-death”, right? Chosing a nice fat loaded term attempts to win the debate before it has even started. It’s a good strategy, because it is effective. If you want to control the [...]

It’s a convenient fiction that a vocal minority within the open-source community believes Microsoft is the source of all evil in the technology world. For “such people“, it is far easier to denounce an imaginary one-dimensional straw man directing irrational “hate” towards a single entity than a principled stand against anti-freedom activities, no matter the source. [...]