I want to add one quote that came to mind a little later...

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power
to make you commit injustices.  -- Voltaire

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:29PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:13:03AM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2008 1:20 AM, chefren <chefren@pi.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > This man has no respect for programmers, clearly doesn't understand why money
> > > was invented and how a market can be a very reasonable way to let people earn
> > > money.
> > 
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Market
> > 
> > "It is misleading to describe the users of free software, or the
> > software users in general, as a "market".
> 
> OMG market!! Evil word!!
> 
> Oh wait everything is a market including charity, religion, open
> software, proprietary software, hardware etc.  GPL/FSF politics are
> absurd.  I have no other word for it.  It is nothing but circle talk
> meant to confuse simpletons in doing what isn't in their best interest.
> You know, like voting republican when you make ,000 a year.  Use big
> words and play on guilt to make them followers.  Absurd I tell you!!