While i find some truth in your post , about Microsoft, it would be good to put things in perspective, and imagine for a second what the GNU/Linux landscape wou

While i find some truth in your post , about Microsoft, it would be good to put things in perspective, and imagine for a second what the GNU/Linux landscape would be without miguel's contribution. The guy has been proven to behave like an asshole, but i find it good to judge people on what they do. The contribution of miguel , in usefulness for a regular Linux user experience today ,is certainly comparable to RMS's. And while i, like many others ,am very suspicious about the mono story, i would really like like to see this project succeed, if only because there is IMHO a desperate need for a decent multi-language VM on linux (other than java, wich is pretty unusable for desktop applications on linux). Also, the patents infrigement threat has been hanging on diverse parts of GNU/linux for a very long time, and i've yet to be convinced of the solidity of the case microsoft could have against mono, since after everything i've read i couldn't reach a clear conclusion. So yeah, RMS is true to himself. But i don't find that admirable at all. There is no balance in what he says, ever, and i don't view that as genius ... I don't want to live in his free software world, because he looks like a totalitarian. Even if his views and his works are to be valuated, i respectfully disagree with him on almost anything ideological. And i don't like people insulting others in public, for any reasons .. Like if i was watching a movie, i have real huge problems picturing miguel in the position of the ugly traitor, sorry ...