Dave's gone ahead and written a stand-out post that reflects upon bullying in general, and in tech in particular.
Why not take the reasonable viewpoint that whilst we might not agree with everything RMS does or says, he deserves enormous respect for dedicating his life to a quest that has benefited most of us in one way or another.
Back on October 4th, 2006, I wrote up a fairly thorough overview of the controversy surrounding RSS: "RSS has been damage by in-fighting among those who have developed it". I documented in detail the extent to which David Winer interfered with other people's work, while claiming credit for that work. Please read this if you do not know much about the history of this conflict:
http://www.teamlalala.com/blog/2006/10/24/rss-has-been-damag...
It gets dull.
On the contrary, it neatly illustrates what the OP is talking about.