I understand that he needs and wants to support the cause of free software, but you can do that without making the hyperbolic statements he is making. Being as

I understand that he needs and wants to support the cause of free software, but you can do that without making the hyperbolic statements he is making. Being as ideologically rigid as he is can be counter-productive, as people like me are less likely to take his arguments seriously if they seem to be founded more on dogma than sound arguments.