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In defense of FSF’s Swindle campaign
Posted by Rui Seabra in Uncategorized on 19 de Junho de 2009
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…
