Some don’t like that FSF is criticizing Amazon for defrauding users of their freedoms with Kindle.
FSF is calling it Swindle, so some guy say it’s whine-like name calling, for instance as in “Andy-Mandy”.
This reveals that this guy, at best, doesn’t know his English. It’s a totally appropriate* accurate wordplay, just check the definition of Swindle:
- victimize: deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”; “the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change”
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; “that book is a fraud”
See?
Well, at least I hope Andy Lester’s criticism is not because he may have something to gain from Amazon…
* so I’m not a native English speaker…
2 Responses to “In defense of FSF’s Swindle campaign”
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I think when you say “appropriate”, you really mean “accurate.”
I’m not addressing whether it is a swindle or not. My point is that name-calling does nothing to help further your cause.
My criticism of the FSF has nothing to do with any business my book may do through Amazon, nor do I have any hard opinions either way on DRM.
Either way, if you buy the electronic version from Pragmatic directly, it’s entirely DRM-free.
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/algh/land-the-tech-job-you-love
s/appropri/accur/ , thanks.
Glad to see you clarify that it has nothing to do with a commercial interest, I was really disappointed.