I hate to say it but RMS comes off as a bit petulant in this exchange. The "I'd advise you to stop 'pressuring' me or else" bits in particular. The other devel

I hate to say it but RMS comes off as a bit petulant in this exchange. The "I'd advise you to stop 'pressuring' me or else" bits in particular. The other developers are trying to show him that he's keeping GCC crippled by design in order to preserve freedom. They argue that in doing so, the affect will be to drive people away toward more wide open tech, achieving the exact opposite of what RMS hopes to accomplish. When they cite examples of this already occurring, RMS responds with either a shrug ("it's already happened, so we can't stop it") or with the aforementioned "I'm offended." Stefan asks point blank: "Are you saying that if David writes this, and writes code for Emacs to make use of it, you're going to use your leverage to try and make sure this code doesn't make it into Emacs?" To which RMS responds: "We do not want to promote that sort of plugin." That's kind of sad.