Insufficiently free?

RMS seems to view conversation as a chess match or a mathematical proof.

From TFA:
>One might well wonder just why Mr. Stallman cannot bring himself to recommend the result of
this work. 
Stallman's entire position is based upon the limit as compromise approaches 0.
The GPL makes great common sense, but it apparently rankles the fellow that not everyone views
it as received wisdom.
Once, I had a PHB that would try to tell me to do patently stupid things when technical
choices for the project came up.
I would look at him and say "I love you, man", rather that engage, because his ideas (e.g.
'just make all of the database fields text') were just ronngg.
RMS deserves to be lovingly ignored in a similar fashion.