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The article quite clearly debunks 3, and all of the others are sort of redundant. Someone who is principled, motivated, and wrong to proselytize might better be described as "obstinate", and we don't generally like those people.

(To be clear, re #3, there exist people who have done as much or more for free software as RMS, but people don't idolize most, except perhaps Linus, to the same degree)




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