Stallman was always a lousy frontman with a long history of foot-in-mouth and blowups. However to his credit he really reigned it in the past couple decades. I

Stallman was always a lousy frontman with a long history of foot-in-mouth and blowups. However to his credit he really reigned it in the past couple decades. I don’t remember him doing anything particularly newsworthy from 2000ish until today. I think the turning point was around the time he tried to rename Linux via a glibc patch (and I think in gcc also), and that blew up. I think the rise of llvm softened him up a bit, I seem to recall him doing odd dictatorial stuff with gcc back in the day but that stopped when llvm appeared.