This is weird. Is there anyone even remotely familiar with free software for whom the Doctor part in "Doctor Stallman" sounds more credible than the Stallman part?..
It's a small detail that keeps coming up as people grasp at straws trying to cancel a person who has given humanity so much over so many decades :(
"Remote familiarity" with free software includes people who have a hard time telling open source and free software apart, which may include politicians who have only been recently told that those terms even exist. It stands to reason that many of them don't know who Stallman is.