OK, fair enough. I thought about putting in a comment about how much I disagree with ESR on most things these days. But this paper came out before he started using his sudden exposure as a soap box. I was trying to keep things centered on the spirit of F/OSS as I saw it when I was much younger and way more interested in code and systems than politics.

But since we opened that can now, yes, homophobic, racist writing based on a flawed understanding of libertarian-ism and it's worst qualities have done a lot to dampen my opinion of him in the last 10 years or so...

RMS I still read and tend to agree with even though he is just as maligned in some modern communities as ESR, just for very different reasons.

> ESR is just your run-of-the-mill disgusting internet misogynist, homophobe and xenophobe

To be fair, he was pretty representative of Internet culture in the 90s. For whatever harms the commercialization of the web has caused, at least there's been a clear shift away from that as the dominant culture.