I know this is kinda against the guidelines, but just to highlight what an ideological war is being fought, at this moment, my parent post has received 5 upvotes and 6 downvotes, with the last 4 downvotes all occuring in the last minute.

On the content, RMS chose a colorful (insulting) language, yes, do hold that against him, because that is wrong, but in my opinion, at the core, his statements are quite legit.