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You and me both. I was prepared for an upper crusty profile making fun of his mannerisms or idealism. Instead I got a clear, concise summary of Stallman and the landscape of software licencing. This will be an excellent introduction for the average person.

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The New Yorker is an amazingly humane publication. Not snarky, not haughty, not what many people (who do not read it) think it is. This piece is a representative sample of their journalism.

The New Yorker is like Burning Man - people who've never experienced it have strongly held, fiercely incorrect assumptions about what it is.

> Not snarky

I see you've never read Anthony Lane's film reviews. :)

Downvotes not justified. Lane's reviews are distressingly snarktastic.

@matthewn (can't reply directly to you) - hah! You're right, Anthony Lane is hilarious. And the opera reviews can be boring if you (like me) are not into opera. But you know what I mean =)

I love the New Yorker, but the whole "goings on about town" section is obviously useless if you don't live in New York.

You must not read the New Yorker very often. I don't think I've seen an article that I would describe as "making fun" of anyone in ~25 years of reading.

True... and to be fair, I also don't watch television, use any of the popular social networks other than Github, I don't have a cell phone, and my default position on anything uttered by a politician is that it is a lie.

My comment was more an indictment of mainstream news at large, so if I inappropriately cast aspersions on a good publication, I apologize.

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