Time to choose Ubuntu fans: rage or reason?

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.

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. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just to be clear, let me state the following, which I place in italics in the hopes of snaring the attention even of those Ubuntu fans who don't read posts in their entirety before banging out enraged comments.

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