Is it that Stallman lacks a manager's mindset of breaking the vision into manageable pieces, and then delegating them out? Or is it that this is so against the ethos, that he couldn't make it happen with a volunteer workforce?
Well, I guess if you consider his other interests, like the GNU Userland (which is most of what users recognise as linux), the GPL licsense (and generally 'Free Software'), and his part in the opening up of the software/hardware market...
I think this was a joke from Stallman. Your comment reads like we can conclude from EMACS going off track that he sucks as a leader. You and I might (quick strongly in my case) dislike Free Software, but I think we can recognise that Stallman gets things done.
If you want to point at a place where Stallman didn't succeed, I'd probably look more at Herd. At least people use Emacs.
Fair enough. I consider Emacs a success by almost any measure. The question is, "If he wanted it for 25 years, why hasn't it happened?" It could be time and attention. It could be the ethos of working with volunteers.
This isn't coming from a dislike of Free Software per say, more just an appreciation of the challenges of herding cats (volunteers).
