[koeselitz]

This seems a bit extreme to me. I fall more on RMS's side of things, but I also thing RMS would not characterize ESR as "technically clueless" and only doing "little bits of damage" to the movement. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is not an unimportant essay, if only as a pedagogy to an important shift in how development can work. I disagree strongly with ESR's attempt to divorce, as he says here, "moral thought" from software - this seems like a mistake to me - but he is not a fool or a dilettante.