Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote about an experiment in cognitive dissonance where certain groups were given information and then more information which refuted; the result was that they believed the first information even more strongly.  To wit:

Thirty-four percent [...] told only about the [...] claims thought [...] had [...], but 64 percent [...] who heard both claim and refutation thought [...]. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse.

And then under that (though, before temporally), Jeff Licquia wrote about the Ubuntu-Firefox-EULA issue.  Again:

[...] a situation where you always have to ask permission [...], and have to be constantly reminded of the rules, you don’t feel comfortable.

That’s the connection I’m seeing between them: the people who are afraid or skeptical or dismissive of free software are of the same mindset as the group from the aforementioned study.  They hear about free software from those who are against it foremost, and so they are already skeptical.  Then the good folks as FSF or other orgs refute the FUD and yet… backfires.  The skeptics are somehow reinforced by the refutation.

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On the other hand, one can to a large extent deduct the meaning of these things from context clues and other bits of knowledge. Like a human must obviously have some sort of associated culture of their own, and in some ways that will reflect or refract their surrounding culture.

A computer, similarly, is grounded in its programming, and a computer intelligence would have a combination of its original programming and its experiential data. So a computer consciousness, an artificial intelligence, is something of a hybrid of a rudimentary computer and a rudimentary human or biological consciousness.

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