There's only so many times you can say "wow, that guy is such a nutjob" before it gets old and you stop bothering.
I think free software as a concept is great, but everything I've ever read from RMS sounds psychotic.
I think free software as a concept is great, but everything I've ever read from RMS sounds psychotic.
Everything I've ever read or heard from RMS sounded extremely consistent, logical, common sense and down to the earth to me.
I always thought that people don't like him because he's stating some inconvenient truths about proprietary software and because they are pissed that they cannot use GPL'ed software for their closed-source, proprietary products.
To me, RMS is basically a modern reincarnation of Socrates.