My own polemic on the Max v NetRoots can be read at:
http://platosbeard.org/archives/262
Nothing particularly intelligent. Instead the following under the heading "Will the Real Internet Left please stand up?":
* Incremental steps are preferable to revolutions that return us to
where we were (in the words of G.K.Chesterton)
* That these steps are not progress remains to be shown
* To not understand the limits of such steps is wilful blindness
* The real Internet Left is, to repeat, Richard Stallman
--ravi