[rvnx]

You just pinpointed the problem.

He is good at one domain, and then by cognitive bias people think he is right on everything.

It’s not true at all, and I think you have to take a bit of distance with glorifying IT personalities.

Like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Stallman, and many others (especially in the VC world) it’s important to take them with a grain of salt, and not accept them as perfect nice guys because they have money (Musk) or influence (Stallman).

Otherwise they can spread dangerous ideas that normally should 100% be challenged, but that are not, due to blind acceptance.

[mcpackieh]

> He is good at one domain, and then by cognitive bias people think he is right on everything.

You really don't get it at all. You're out of touch. People think that Stallman is right about one thing only, software freedom, and think he's out of touch with virtually everything else.

[rvnx]

Well we actually somehow agree, but for different reasons.

It's good, for a second I thought you were supporting his views on non-IT topics.

The problem is that the political speeches are part of the person, and the scope way way beyond software.

They are really interleaved with (supposed) IT topics, like if IT was a bait.

Once I went to one of his conference, and I had "learnt" more about "sex" and "facism" than software engineering or freedom.