[pishpash]

No. The confusion on your part is you think Stallman acting like this makes him part of some authoritarian structure, but it does not. He is not telling anybody how to do their work, because they can just fork his code. He is simply ignoring what they want for his project because they are not his manager or PM. Under these circumstances, what obligation has he to make nice with what some consider "acceptable behavior" for a company man?

[asdgadsgdga]

Then why is the workpace any different? Nobody is telling you what to do, you can just get another job.

[pishpash]

Because people are literally telling you what to do everyday, and getting another job doesn't change that, only who tells you?

The whole point of FSF is that everyone can have control over their software and do whatever the heck they want with it, even if it makes no sense. Here you have an excellent example, and you're suggesting there's the same freedom in finding somebody else to control your work.

[smaudet]

False equivalency - I agree Stallman might have had some outdated visions for his projects (word processing? Realy? Nobody cares about that anymore).

I also accept the FSF/GNU don't operate like a typical authoritarian company - although I do think there are probably more similarities due to the fact power structures and human psychology dictate certain behaviors than FSF or Stalmman care to admit. But we absolutely shouldn't expect him or the FSF to operate in a similar manner, corps are what produce the toxic behaviors in the first place (not human toxic, toxic to society).

Being nice and polite, and being forced to murder kids and pillage third world countries, that has always had the smack of pure evil to it to me.

Maybe being polite is overrated after all. Fuck off, hitler (or whomever the evil dictator is).