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True. We're getting a bit off-track, though. The *real* point, in my opinion, is that Linus does not try to tell other people what they should call the software they use on their own computers. Nor does he insist that people take a "Torvaldsesque Pledge" before he will talk to them.

I think most of us are perfectly fine with the idea of various disparate groups coming together in synergy to produce something more powerful than the simple sum of its parts. It's only when one of those groups begins inisting that they are, in Orwellian terms, "more equal than ohers" that I begin to become concerned. And yes, a bit annoyed, as well.