on june 16, 2010, joe brockmeier, a journalist at "linux magazine", criticized the defective by design campaign by the fsf as "negative" and "juvenile" and not being adequate for providing users with "credible alternatives" to proprietary software. fsf responded to this criticism by saying "that there is a fundamental difference between speaking out against policies or actions and smear campaigns", and "that if one is taking an ethical position, it is justified, and often necessary, to not only speak about the benefits of freedom but against acts of dispossession and disenfranchisement."