> The problem is that his uninformed bad takes outside of his area of expertise damages his activism within software and diminishes any of his contributions to

> The problem is that his uninformed bad takes outside of his area of expertise damages his activism within software and diminishes any of his contributions to software. I don't see how his comments diminished his contributions to software. They were entirely irrelevant to his contributions to software. > A second problem is placing value upon what he has to say because there's a cult of personality surrounding him as an intellectual, but the reality is that his area of expertise and rationality is in fact niche and specific rather than general, as evidenced by his comments. I'm still not really understanding your point here. I agree his expertise does not extend to the subjects on which he famously opined. For that reason, I mostly ignored what he had to say on this subject.