I saw him talking at Sri Lanka Institute of Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka in 1997 and he was a lot different than what you say your experience is. He answered t

I saw him talking at Sri Lanka Institute of Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka in 1997 and he was a lot different than what you say your experience is. He answered the questions from audience and it was really a fun event. He was steady about his views about "GNU" and "Linux" but he wasn't harsh by any means. Anyway I always expect him to be the way I saw him because the moment he start to be sloppy about his ideas, the same people who name him as an extremist will say "see, even the president of FSF, the oh-so-holy leader of `free software thing` is sloppy about his own idea".