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What are you implying?


Guilt by association.


He is displeased by the fact that there are people who dare to give voice to those who are labelled 'conservative' or 'right-wing' by the talking heads in the corporate press, thereby acquiring a taint in the way a Linux kernel acquires one by giving space to non-GPL modules: "if you listen to those people we will not take anything you say seriously because you're tainted".

I happen to agree with the tainting mechanism in the Linux kernel but I vehemently disagree with this type of political tainting.




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