We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less
From the article:<p>&gt;Disclaimer: I’m aware that Richard Stallman had some questionable or inadequate behaviours. I’m not defending those nor the man himself. … I’m defending a philosophy, not the philosopher. I pretend that his historical vision and his original ideas are still adequate today.<p>The problem is that the man himself epitomizes his own ideas. A lot of his behavior is a consequence of taking his ideas to their logical conclusion. For example, consider the following interaction [0]:<p><pre><code>  My closest interactions with him involved trying to get him off a conference stage so the next session could happen (just as bad as you’d imagine) and being seated next to him on a puddle-jumper during a 90 minute ground hold (whatever you’re imagining, worse).

  He … berate[d] me for having noise canceling headphones (something to do with them not being based on free software). He spent the whole time telling me about software freedom and how my headphones were a symbol of oppression or some such.
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I’m not sure how forcing the manufacturer of those headphones to make their hardware and firmware fully open source would benefit the world in any way, shape, or form. This sort of demagoguery does way more harm to the Free Software movement than good. If more of RMS’s ideas means more people thinking and behaving like that, we really, really don’t need any more.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mattblaze&#x2F;status&#x2F;1374460079798292487" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mattblaze&#x2F;status&#x2F;1374460079798292487</a>