fallinggrace.com: Logical Critique of Rob Enderle's "Free Software and the Idiots Who Buy It"

[ Thanks to Neil Wehneman for this link. ]

"On August 3, 2004, Rob Enderle presented a keynote address at SCO Forum entitled 'Free Software and the Idiots Who Buy It.' In that address Mr. Enderle employed repeated logical errors, accusations without evidence, and ad hominem attacks. He materially confused the meaning of Free Software, as well as assigning physical threats to the Groklaw / Free Software community without proof.

"This paper is not an attempt to debate Mr. Enderle or the SCO Group. Instead my goal is simply to show the numerous and significant logical fallacies in Mr. Enderle's address..."

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