the difference between me and a liberal is im more then happy to take direct action. I’ll do whatever it takes to fight fascism [...] with the ballet box
in left wing circles most leftists only pretended not to vote
Not sure if you can have it both ways. How do you take "direct action at the ballot box" while also only pretending to withold your vote?
It's interesting to see some of the back-and-forth on this topic between different proponents of free software.
I listened to this talk by Linus Torvalds a while back and it relates to the GPL license used by the Linux kernel and why the kernel hasn't changed to GPLv3. Apparently Linus doesn't find this practice by Tivo and other hardware manufacturers to be an issue.