Criticize Stallman and suffer the wrath of the internet

This article doesn't add anything to the discussion. Worse, it pointedly takes a stance against RMS's article and calls it FUD, but doesn't say anything to address any of the points RMS made.<p>Should probably just be flagged as blogspam.

My opinion about RMS is very simple. He did a incredible job by creating the GPL license and funding the GNU project, but in the modern world he needs to get out of his cavern and at least try the things he rant about, after he tried and realized that it really isn't good he can say anything about it.<p>I can't hear a person that wants anarchism for the open source community and reads sites by wget'ing them. After he tries things for himself instead of just hearing about them I'll start to hear him again.

Does Linux Mint have the same spying "feature" as Ubuntu?

tl;dr of counter-argument from Jono "not Canonical" Bacon:<p>We're making a product here and it's not perfect yet. Your privacy is important to us. Unfortunately, RMS and I have a disagreement at what privacy means. We feel that convenience is privacy. At least we're not <i>Facebook</i>.<p>I feel that RMS trying to mobilize the Linux community fits the definition of FUD. Respectfully, RMS is a fuddy-duddy. Freedom also means allowing corporations to have freedom too, don't you know. Just look at Apple, aren't you jelly? We need to do this to make free software look like Apple stuff.