Actually I'd say Steve Jobs was very empathetic in terms of his ability to see what regular people would want to use and what would be confusing to them. From w

Actually I'd say Steve Jobs was very empathetic in terms of his ability to see what regular people would want to use and what would be confusing to them. From what I read he chose not to use those skills with coworkers, employees, etc. Nonetheless I think he clearly had them. Whether that makes him "worse" than RMS is a highly subjective question.