Don't worry: I wasn't disagreeing with that part of your comment, or actually the comment in general. RMS, the FSF and the GPL have had a phenomenal impact on

Don't worry: I wasn't disagreeing with that part of your comment, or actually the comment in general. RMS, the FSF and the GPL have had a phenomenal impact on software. But apart from RMS's own shortcomings, the result of that phenomenal impact is that his role is diminshed, to a de minimus level. It's like Tim Berners-Lee: massive impact on the world but by now no real role. Nothing wrong with that (especially when it's such a nice person as TB-L).