I respect RMS a lot, too, but I have to agree with this piece. He clearly tries to be a PR/sells person first of all. An advocate for free software in all indus

I respect RMS a lot, too, but I have to agree with this piece. He clearly tries to be a PR/sells person first of all. An advocate for free software in all industries and all other parts of society. Why then, doesn't he play to the rules of society where it makes obvious sense? As much as I find his stubbornness personally sympathetic, I doubt he is doing the FSF a favor at this point. As an example I know from the people at MIT Open Course Ware, that even though they share a very similar view on free information, and RMS can show great achievements, it was really hard to use RMS as an effective advocate for OCW. The key audience was simply turned off by his appearance. As smug as that might sound. In reality, you can hardly put people into sales, when they refuse to wear a tie every so often.