Well if he's not contributing to the project in any meaningful way, why is his opinion valued? It's not a matter of lines of code, but of contribution at all.

Well if he's not contributing to the project in any meaningful way, why is his opinion valued? It's not a matter of lines of code, but of contribution at all. What does RMS enable the emacs project to do that they couldn't do without him? What does he bring to the table? I'm not being rhetorical, I mean it: why do people care what he thinks?