It's the general pattern of Stallman going off on some obtuse point and making a mountain of out things you didn't even know were even mole-hills. It's this ex

It's the general pattern of Stallman going off on some obtuse point and making a mountain of out things you didn't even know were even mole-hills. It's this exhausting, endless series of crusades against these utterly ridiculous things because of some kind of poorly defined principle. Like history has decided hundreds of years ago that singular "they" is entirely appropriate, just as singular "you" is in common-use. Language changes. That's why we don't write "ye" any more, mostly because we decided to kick the letter þ (thorn, or "th") to the curb.