> I see a bunch of people beating up on and attacking an awkward "nerd". It reminds me of high school. That perfectly captures my own impression of this whole

> I see a bunch of people beating up on and attacking an awkward "nerd". It reminds me of high school. That perfectly captures my own impression of this whole debacle. People keep piling on RMS because he's "weird" rather than anything objectively bad that he's done - notice how often his travel binder is being raised even though it's really completely harmless. That's literally witch-hunt behaviour: persecuting somebody because he's different. And of the things he was attacked for that would be objectively bad, so much of it turns out to be either a misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or outright fabrication (like apparently the "hot ladies" sign). I can believe that there is a true kernel of bad behaviour from RMS, but it's blown way out of proportion by all the other stuff around it, and that gives this whole affair the stench of persecuting somebody merely for being different. It's very frustrating.