I understand that there's a substantial number of people in the free-software world who think that RMS is "embarrassing" in one or more ways and that "he needs to go" for what they see as the good of the future of the movement. I just hope that those people think about how they hope they'll be treated years from now, when they're the old person who's embarrassing the young community members who aren't even active (or alive) now.

Because the cold, hard linearity of time means that, someday, you *will* be the oldest person in the free-software world. Unless your plan is to die early, of course.