> 2) Like, duh, I understand perfectly well what his point is: to slander

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> the GNU project and its users. I re-read the message several times

> before replying.

out in the slashdot crowd, there is a trend to say anything neccessary

to get what they want, including explaining away actual law and

ethics.
how do they get to the point of saying such things?
it is a gimme gimme gimme culture.
the letters written in the GPL and the BSD and the laws that underpin

those licenses mean nothing in the face of gimme gimme gimme.  if the

GPL had words which would take away from them, they would attempt to

explain those words away.
noone is slandering those users.  they're calling them what they

are -- greedy and self-serving and wrong.