[zaphirplane]

That just can’t be true, a lot , I’ll go as far as say absolute majority of paid and hobby OSS developers have no interaction with RMS

Even projects under the gnu.org umbrella probably don’t interact that much with RMS, let alone have discouraging interaction.

I have no dog in this fight but have a bias for factual discussions

[megous]

Pretty much. I think I've seen one of his speeches this year for the first time, yet his ideas hugely changed my life forever, since I understood them. My exposure was just reading some texts onf fsf website in 2003, and jumping into learning GNU/Linux back then.