I might be wrong, but I think I&#x27;ve sometimes seen it here; in any case it definitely happens in many &quot;programmer&quot; online circles (say, programmers.stackexchange: search for questions about the GPL or GNU or open source software): RMS is sometimes disparaged as a loon and an extremist. The Free Software movement as a whole is often disparaged as impractical and out of touch with reality. I cannot say these people self-describe as hackers but... I dunno... they <i>are</i> asking and answering questions in a stackexchange community about programmers...<p>I do remember this also happened in Slashdot occasionally. People using free software criticizing RMS as an extremist.<p>Which is pretty disappointing, given that many of the people doing the disparaging are using software borne out of the efforts of said free software &#x2F; hacker movements.