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You do realise that ESR is a board member of VA Linux? He owns / was given stock in the company, and sits as a director IIRC. Much like RMS being CEO (Chief Ethics Officer ;) of FreeDevelopers. Except RMS wouldn't back FreeDevelopers up if they released non-Free software :)
I do realise, that is why I am more angry with ESR. And that is why I think it is more important from now on to avoid any sort of incomprehension between OS and FS. From what ESR said, Microsoft Shared Source may well be acceptable and that is not what we want.
Linuxmanship was a paper about advocating Linux in a positive manner, IIRC. I didn't particularly like it much myself - referring to Windows as a 'legacy' system I didn't think would work, for example - but the basic ideas are spot on: don't negatively campaign, don't use terms like Winblows, M$, etc. Be adult and professional: Linux [Free Software] is good enough to stand up to arguments on its own.
I missed that paper, thank you for the explanation (and for the link).
regards