People that write dumb stuff are best ignored, the more you pay attention the more of a platform they'll have.<p>It's a pity for Miguel deIcaza that it has to be Jason Perlow that comes to his defence, he's about as tainted as it gets.<p>As for Miguel himself, most of the people that are jumping up and down to be able to throw their rocks are in their lifetimes not going to achieve one 10th of a percent of the contribution to FOSS that deIcaza has already made.<p>For Stallman to criticize him in this way wasn't very classy, but at least he's earned the right.<p>Edit: Perlow just basically sees a chance to pull himself out of irrelevancy by attaching his name to a 'hot' subject in the eternal soap that the IT world seems to be turning in to, and groklaw plays right into his cards.<p>This whole cult of personality is at some level deeply uncomfortable, but I can't put my finger on why.<p>edit2: groklaw probably should put a nofollow in the link to the Perlow article, it's one thing to link it for illustrative purposes, but to give it more status on the net is a net loss, especially from groklaw.