What's also rather interesting to note is just how much extra 'defensive' some of the supporters of the drm / closed-src apps can become nowadays: it's the 'others' that are 'sillier' and 'dump', while they themselves are so sure of themselves that they are somehow a priori the undisputable voice of logic & rationality(®)...
Still, why they get triggered in the first place since they are so smart, remains a mystery...
But i guess it's just a side-effect of some underlying zealot mentality i think: i-know-better & other people's ideas are dump...hey, i even tell them they're dump, so that any kind of constructive criticism & dialog stops dead at it's tracks.
It's my loose impression that even merely a decade ago, it was way more frequently the other way around: most likely it was certain fsf-supporters who were the ones preaching at every at chance that they hold they keys to the kingdom of truth(™)
I won't make any claims or assumptions however as to why those roles appear (to me at least) to have been reversed nowadays...
Will say though that a bit of self-reflection & and maybe a small inch of humour doesn't hurt (and neither disagreeing does either - it would be a boring & unproductive world otherwise...and a rather 'closed' one).
It's worth a note as well that the original poster, although he/she appears to be quite self-aware that he/she is fishing in muddy waters...hasn't replied back (yet?) - he just dropped the 'hook' and the rest of us (or at least some of us) are...triggered
I'd still be interested to hear what his/her thoughts are on the responses so far...
Most likely not even a 'minority' are purists, a fraction of it i'd think...whm1974 wrote:I highly doubt that at this stage most Linux users are purists anyway. We have to use some proprietary software to do certain things, that is just the way it is(for now).