> If you want professional, there are plenty of professional proprietary vendors out there I do not see existence of other professional vendors a valid reason

> If you want professional, there are plenty of professional proprietary vendors out there I do not see existence of other professional vendors a valid reason for behaving unprofessionaly. Nobody says RMS should behave professionally because otherwise there would be no professional vendors left. He should behave professionally because it's the right thing to do in this context, not because of availability concerns. > GNU is a social project first No, not really. Almost all effort is dedicated to code and surrounding matters (yes, GPL too), and very little is dedicated to societal change as such. > with quality and professionalism being secondary considerations. If it were true, GNU projects would die long ago. Nobody needs a compiler or a shell that is social project first and quality software second. Nobody would use it (ok, maybe a dozen or so of people would, but that's it). Fortunately, it is not the case at all. > rms is known for being difficult, not for being wrong. He's known for both. He has been wrong plenty. He also has been right plenty, including in many important things, but that doesn't make him infallible.