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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Linux advocacy
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 07:06:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On 4 Oct 2024 03:55:05 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 23:17:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:12:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, Linux has _become_
>>> political.
>> 
>> Free Software always was political. You mean you just realized? You
>> never heard Richard Stallman talk about?
> 
> Stallman could politicize a discussion of what pizza toppings to order
> for dinner. It's in his genes.

He is free to do that, just as you are free to disagree.

>> By the way, is “woke” the new “liberal”? One smear term has lost its
>> smear-ability, so you are trying to create a new one?
> 
> The woke whiggers culturally appropriated that one themselves.

“Cultural appropriation” means taking some element of another culture and 
passing it off as your own. Like USian pizza.