And that part of the story is pretty fair. RMS held non-mainstream /academic/ views on sexual morality. It's like dropping someone from the 2020s, accepting of LGBTQ, into Victorian England. Or a 2020 Saudi Muslim in San Francisco in the sixties. Or vice-versa. Or worse yet, and ancient Roman/Spartan in 2020. Imagine they adapt their behavior, but continue commenting on how the place they're in is bizarre.

In some ways, that made him less effective as a free software advocate, as did many of his other more controversial views on just about every topic. In others, that made him more honest.

That's not what's being reported, though.