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While reading, I found the tone to be familiar. Came across “Amazon Swindle”, knew it was Stallman, scrolled to top, confirmed. No judgement on his personality here. I just find those “cute” names and straw men to be real annoying. There are of course valid points in there but this is not the way to make them.

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> There are of course valid points in there but this is not the way to make them.

Why not?

I consider such slight renaming to be quite a good idea since these are quite memorable and thus hopefully hackers will tend to use them in everyday speech (like the re-branding of "DRM" from "Digital Rights Management" to "Digital Restrictions Management" that is common in Hacker circles).

It is just lying and dishonest communication. It can work, lying and being dishonest often has advantages. The complaint about it is not about whether it can work.

"this is not the way to make them" is often euphemism for other complains someone does not want to make directly - whether civility based (it is rude) or ethics based.

It’s also a lazy, pun-laden, misreading-the-room way to communicate. People who think of themselves as clever do that. It’s a preaching-to-the-choir style of framing. It undermines the intellectual concepts presented by not making the argument very well.

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