Do you care to elaborate? Your whole blog post is spent describing his rude tone, not addressing any of the content of his remarks. It is really, really not o

Do you care to elaborate? Your whole blog post is spent describing his rude tone, not addressing any of the content of his remarks. It is really, really not obvious to me whether the world would be better off if you and I stopped writing proprietary software, did something else as a career, and wrote free software as a hobby. That is a hard question. My intuition agrees with Stallman. Whether or not you agree too, it's obvious from his published opinions that he has thought hard about (and acted in accordance with) the specific goal: what helps humanity the most? That is the clear point of his answer to you and it is the polar opposite of misanthropy.