Stallmans problem is that he is always right. It just takes 20 years for everyone else to notice.
The secondary problem is that everyone's paycheck here depends on him being wrong, so we get character assassination instead.
The secondary problem is that everyone's paycheck here depends on him being wrong, so we get character assassination instead.
* Edit: the problems with software licensing which is the primary thing people know him for. See how many bios even mention his software development work, and then see how many fail to mention his free software zealotry. To even assume his development accomplishments are what people are talking about when discussing his public activities is strange even in a crowd of software developers. If he wrote that same exact software for IBM, or even if he had written it for GNU and not worn crazy outfits to software conventions, nobody would be talking about him 'at all.'
You know, the compiler that kept free software running between 1990 and 2015?
The sheer erasure of his contributions would be comical if it wasn't done so maliciously.