[cafard]

"Mike Stonebraker of Ingres didn’t even bother to show up at the committee meeting to make the (quite strong) case for adopting QUEL because he was ideologically opposed to setting technology standards. It was the behavior of an intellectually arrogant academic rather than a prudent businessman protecting the interests of his company."

Some might call the behavior principled, rather than arrogant.

[lisper]

Those are not mutually exclusive. (One could add "foolish" and "short-sighted" to the list of potentially compatible adjectives.)

[cheschire]

And RMS being a good example of a principled and arrogant man that was neither foolish nor short sighted.

[znpy]

The more we go forward with technology and everything, the more I understand: Stallman was 110% damn right the whole time, and was lightyears ahead in seeing what other people couldn't see.

Proprietary software is a cancer.

[titanomachy]

In retrospect, standards turned out to be rather important.