I’m glad this eventually sent me to the enjoyable article on Tim O’Reilly. Although the article is a bit disingenuous in its descriptions of Stallman. [H]ighly idiosyncratic, to put it mildly is only the tip of the iceberg. He’s not just an idiosyncratic ideologue – he’s an offensive monomanical fruitcake.
We need a certain amount of those in some areas*, however, and I am a month in arrears on my FSF dues. FOR SHAME.
* although without the offensiveness, I’m sure.