So to be clear: 1) You believe people should be judged based on the opinions they hold now rather than their past opinions. 2) You think that the person's cur

So to be clear: 1) You believe people should be judged based on the opinions they hold now rather than their past opinions. 2) You think that the person's current opinion is different than they say it is, and are judging them based on what you imagine their true opinion to be, rather than what they say it is. Do you have specific basis for thinking he is lying? Stallman tends very much to voice his true opinion regardless of how it may be received, so if he claims to have changed his thinking I would tend to believe it unless there's an actual reason to think otherwise.