Richard Stallman is a legend. While most of us blindly agree to terms and conditions for crap proprietary software, he doesn't even need a GUI. He's one of my top inspirations.
while I applaud him for sticking to his convictions, thats like saying that one should walk everywhere because we didn't used to have cars/don't need them
With time I'm starting to realize he's essentially correct in everything he says. We are really chained to corporations due to non-open hardware and software, and they're almost completely unaccountable to us.
The way I see is, to make a political point, someone has to be extreme in his cause to be not called out for hypocrisy, and I feel like that's where he is...