> His results speak for themselves. Do you mean creating the technical underpinnings for world-scale software-as-a-service systems that devour our society whol

> His results speak for themselves. Do you mean creating the technical underpinnings for world-scale software-as-a-service systems that devour our society whole? Or do you mean slaving hopelessly for decades trying to convince people of his rightness and attempting to force a rigid, legalistic approach to humane software development on the world, only to lose what good reputation he had developed due to an utter refusal to account for human frailty, emotions, and impatience when discussing difficult topics in the public eye? To be clear, I think the media treated Stallman terribly in the debacle around Epstein's Media Lab ties. I also think his failings as a software theorist are the same ones that led to him creating a situation that could be so easily and dangerously misunderstood. My overall point is just that his results are not flawless, unmitigated good. They suggest to me that his software philosophy was not sufficient to guarantee good results.