mcb, inc. wrote:
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> Watching the latest flame war, I can't help thinking that as
> founders of their respective projects Theo and RMS are trapped
> in a jail of rigid consistency and absolutism demanded by
> children and utopians.
Well, yes and no.

Theo's absolutism has kept OpenBSD pretty much the last
blob-free OS in the Free Software world.

RMS's absolutism has kept alive an ideal that launched
the mainstream open source movement.

So it's not non-functional. It's emotionally hard on the
individuals concerned, and often emotionally hard on
us who bask in the reflected glow of these geniuses :-).
But it  all seems to work out in practice. Has for a cuple
of decades now, give or take a few years.

-- 
Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
jwoehr@absolute-performance.com
303-443-7000 ext. 527