>He is a control freak, and a prophet. He has been right more than once
>(the dangers of software patents, pitfalls of online services). But
>some of his policy decisions (e.g. the reluctance to allow a plugin
>architecture into GCC for fear it would lead to evasion of the GPL)
>have, I think, been counterproductive.

>But isn?t it grand that Free Software is all about having a choice?
>That we can use what he and everybody else working for the FSF has been
>responsible for, without necessarily having to subscribe to every tenet
>of his philosophy?