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Free Software is to Open Source as
Northern California is to Southern California as
Skiers are to Snowboarders as
Leninists are to Trotskyites as
Ruby is to Python as
Devout Muslims are to Orthodox Jews as
Devoted Real Madrid fans are to devoted Barcelona fans, ie
...2 groups who are indistinguishable on 99% of everything and completely identical to the man on the street will let the other 1% dominate their relationship with the other group. (Sorry Richard Bennett, I observe from your blog that you are even an A's fan (!). I suspect that your apparent antipathy to life has to do with not making the switch from Fedora to Ubuntu, am I close?) It is useful to keep these things in perspective.
I share your disdain of snot-nose kids such as myself, another of the 99 out of 100 things we agree on. I meant 'sorry' in the straightforward sense, as in, "sorry for the immoderate comments, for dwelling on the other 1%." But your pique suggests you are in fact a Fedora victim ;)
Of course RMS also thinks similarly about the IP term:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
Re shape: a cube.
Re the utilitarians versus the natural lawyers (a Milton term, love it), I ended up going on and on about that and posted later. "Shape" is in the Title.