I don't think Stallman presents his points in a hysterical way, he's just uncompromising when the vast majority of us are pragmatic by necessity. The problem i

I don't think Stallman presents his points in a hysterical way, he's just uncompromising when the vast majority of us are pragmatic by necessity. The problem is most of us are pretty simple; One cannot resonably follow his advice, thus we believe he is wrong. It's a catch 22 though, as if more agreed, at least some of his ideals would be worthwhile. Personally I'm not super bothered about whether your flash in the pan app is open source or not, but it's really frustrating when people don't buy into open data standard and open hardware drivers. Ultimately, that's a bit like chopping your foot off to save your toe.