Not to give excuses to his occasional behavior but he has his good moments. Some of his writings and interviews are pretty genious. Not to mention his projects, I sometimes enjoy studying them.

You gotta give him some benefit of doubt. He has a genuine, diagnosed mental illness. And even if he did say racist, misogynist and other derogatory things, some of it was years ago and he might have changed as a person (and hopefully for the better). The memory of the Internet is sometimes too long.

I gotta agree with him about one thing: computers are best when they have 16 colors (I spend most of my time in xterm with my favorite sixteen colors).