I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!
RMS is a man of principle. He saw freedom radiating from that laptop and subscribed, doesn't care for geopolitics.
Based and redpilled, Stallman is.
If you want to really shock, have Midjourney make a pic of him, using a MacBook. I seriously doubt there’s a real one, out there.
Haven’t heard from him in a while. I know he was suffering health issues.
Ironically, since there is a specific model of macbook (the 2008 ones iirc? IDK they were the plastic ones that came in black and white) with nearly identical internals to a well supported FSF approved laptop, you can run a full GNU stack (GNUboot, linux-libre, guix) on a mac