On one hand, I like that Stallman is opinionated and forward about his politics and how we wants the world to work. So many people are silent or inactive about the things they care about, wishing for people at large to just change. You ruffle some feathers when you open up and say what's on your mind, but hopefully after enough rational argument, you come off better and with a better message.<p>On the other, I don't really like everything he says, despite being a pretty firm OSS supporter. He conflates so much with open source it's nauseating. People choose a license for all kinds of reasons and I understand he's a cheerleader, I am too, but conflating everything hurts open source as much as it hurts proprietary actors.<p>It's a market. Some people will want to buy your product because they see its open nature as a benefit they are willing to pay more for, others don't care and will not pay more. The same goes for privacy promises, DRM or which devices you support, the color etc. If people buy or sell things that you would rather not, that's cool. Pointing out that everyone at every level of a proprietary agreement is <i>duped</i> by some nefarious puppet-master and the entire machine should fail is childish. Furthermore, throwing in things like economics and employment fairness into the mix really confuses the message to the determent of OSS developers. In like kind, I may be a vegetarian, but PETA certainly doesn't speak for me.<p>I realize he thinks the current market is trash and slight deviations from the status quo won't bring real change, but most people just don't care enough about what many of us care about. That's the hard truth. Slinging mud and building straw-men isn't how we fix this problem. It just makes OSS proponents look out of touch.<p>Also, some people commented on his sometimes hypocritical impurity. eg. making phone calls on locked down phones and using closed source websites occasionally. Being OSS pure in 2016 is crazy hard and getting harder, again due to market forces. I think there's a lot to fault Stallman on, but his deviation from OSS purity is not one of them.