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Political Leaning and Free Software
00_NOP writes "HateMyTory is the world's first political rating site and occasionally gets blasted or promoted by British bloggers on either side of the political spectrum. But here's something even more intriguing: when the right come visiting they hate the site but they are disproportionately likely to be users of free software, whether that is just Firefox on top of their Windows box, or all the way with some Linux distro. But when the left rally to the cause they are more likely than not to be proprietary software users, albeit with a big bias towards Apple. If Microsoft's defenders think free software is the road to socialism, why don't the left seem to agree? As a leftie, and a free software advocate, I find this pretty puzzling."
Actually, I think you have it somewhat reversed. The right wish contol and contort human behavior to their narrow definitions of morality. They are hip to invasive privacy violating behavior as well as forced disemination of their favored religious principles. The right has no real interest in fiscal responsibility, but is hell bent in distributing tax dollars to their cronies.
The lefties are also hell bent on their own social agenda, and though it has privacy and freedom implications, it is not so invasive as the right's. The lefties are about distributing tax dollars in their own way and definitely have an anti-business bent to them. They suck too.
What this country needs more than anything else, is some red blooded moderation. A party that would let people make their personal life choices, and won't go around trying to distribute as many tax dollars as possible. Rather republican style welfare for the rich, or democratic style welfare for the poor, they'd just back off, let people be, and focus on essential services.
I suppose such parties exist, but in our current system, they aren't viable. Given the choice between a rightist theocracy, and some annoying PC BS, that leaves me voting for the lesser evil, Cthulhu be damned.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
You have to know somebody who is into Linux to get it running
So... are you using Windows or a Mac? Because if you ever actually TRIED Linux you would know that what you just wrote is bullshit.
I'm posting this on Mandriva 2005. The only other people I know in meatspace that use Linux are ones I set Linux up for becaise I was sick of reinstalling Windoes for them. And most of them like it BETTER than Windows.
Your ignorance, sir, is astounding. If you only knew how embarrassed you should be!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Way to ignore his entire post and focus on one sentence fragment. His arguments were interesting and not what you're "refuting".
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