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Exactly, if you read the whole thing it sounds like George Bush

> They have been supported by Apple, the company which hates our freedom so much that its app store for the ithings _requires_ all apps to be nonfree.

> The only code that helps us and not our adversaries is copylefted code. Free software released under a pushover license is available for us to use, but available to our adversaries just as well.

> If that enables GCC to "win", the victory would be hollow, because it would not be a victory for what really matters: users' freedom.

> The existence of LLVM is a terrible setback for our community precisely because it is not copylefted and can be used as the basis for nonfree compilers



Let me just say that your comment sound as Hitler, and we can be done with Association fallacies altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy


I must thank you, I'm kind of flattered you think I'm that charismatic.

Sorry about the charismatic way I presented my views, perhaps I should have mentioned my penchant for eating the raw uncooked flesh of freshly slain animals to make it more clear as to whether I was intending to advocate views similar to Hitler.

You may want to look into these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion


Im sorry, my subtle way of apparently was too subtle. I was not comparing you to Hitler, but rather made an association fallacy in order to create an irrelevant association.

If there was any persuasion in it, it was to not use irrelevant association since it do not add anything beyond a appeal to emotion, spun around a fallacy. Hitler, like George Bush, creates a guilt by association while the association is irrelevant tied to the subject matter.

The result thus becomes a polite discussion around the more creative ways of eating meat.




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