FU-BAR » Amazon http://blog.1407.org Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:15:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 In defense of FSF’s Swindle campaign http://blog.1407.org/2009/06/19/in-defense-of-fsfs-swindle-campaign/ http://blog.1407.org/2009/06/19/in-defense-of-fsfs-swindle-campaign/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:50:42 +0000 Rui Seabra http://blog.1407.org/?p=519 [...]]]> 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…

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