Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft

RMS's focus has been extremely successful at making a Free operating system available. Without RMS and the FSF, it's entirely possible that Linux as we know it would not exist, that sans GPL, the Linux kernel would never have grown the way it did, that sans FSF, the body of software that makes Linux usable (like a serious web browser, a decent word-processor, etc.) would never have existed.

Calling him extremely myoptic is absurd; there is no reason to think that him attacking a broader problem would have brought him nearly the success that he has had.