"My post last week about Ubuntu's embrace of the profit motive (exemplified in sponsor Canonical's release of a proprietary and non-free management tool) triggered a pretty remarkable flood of venom and invective in my direction. Fortunately, the Internet shielded me from the buckets of froth and spittle I would otherwise have collected.
"Anger is a tool that evolution has bestowed upon us for coping with dangerous situations. However, it does sometimes interfere with cognition. For example, a lot of the commenters on my post assumed that I was attacking Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth for wanting to make money..."
