I'm very glad to read this here. I'm sorry it's so far down the page. RMS achieved a sort of secular saintly status early on, and as a result has been excused

I'm very glad to read this here. I'm sorry it's so far down the page. RMS achieved a sort of secular saintly status early on, and as a result has been excused from developing any sort of interpersonal skills or, apparently, human decency for most of his adult life. Now we say he identifies as autistic, like this excuses it, but in the absence of an actual diagnosis (and maybe even WITH one), it feels like a cop out. It's well past time to accept that rms may well have damaged the FOSS movement with his behavior as much as he's helped it in recent years. The free & open software world can do better. It deserves better. We ought to demand it. Moving on from rms is a great first step.