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I now have the fanatic zeal of a convert.

"I used to think Stallman was an abrasive fanatic but now I think otherwise.

Doubly so if you are required to write about topics that you may not be fanatic about.

Don't get them wrong: these people are not fanatic, they are just living and breathing a cause they started for a good reason.

Your comment really resonated with me. I'm no Apple fanatic, but I too am far more saddened by this news than I would have believed.

Not to mention I was a religious fanatic myself and am well trained in spotting the same bullshit I used to spread.

Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac> 23.

Trying to argue with an alt-medicine fanatic using a .gov source is like citing Dawkins in a debate with a Bible thumper.

An argument between RMS and ESR over who's the bigger fanatic is not likely to produce very enlightening results...

Hitler was not only a vegetarian, he was a health fanatic, and there's evidence that it informed his obsession with purifying the race.

As a music fanatic, searching lyrics is something I do all day long every day, by the way - and when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go to rap genius.

Surely even the most hardcore Apple fanatic thinks this is completely unnecessary and designed to stifle competition?

Concrete factual example A, B, C...<sound of crunching mental gears and cognitive dissonance defences engaging>Apple fanatic: But Apple did it better and make more money!

Always something along the line of "Usually he is overreacting/a dangerous fanatic, but this time I like what he said and how he said it".Once and for all let's admit that RMS is actually a quite reasonable guy and that when his reactions are "over the top" it is the exception and not the rule.

This would be a big deal if we were an ecommerce company... you'll notice that Amazon is fanatic about avoiding telecommuters; they don't want to accidentally get themselves in a position of effectively raising their prices by 8% on the entire state of Texas just to have one remote employee there.