RMS doesn't have a problem with LLVM because it's bad, he has a problem with it because it's good.
> the biggest hurdle to people caring about copyleft is the sheer tonnage of disrespect people like RMS show to others
No, the biggest hurdles to people caring about copyleft are by far the incompatibilities with accepted practices and existing software that make it a lot of work to comply with copyleft ideals.
RMS's tone never seemed disrespectful to me. Uncompromising and occasionally blunt, yes, but never disrespectful. What would you have had him do differently? Compromise his ideals? Spin out a comforting but insincere apology that focused on licensing technicalities rather than the underlying philosophical issues?
RMS doesn't have a problem with LLVM because it's bad, he has a problem with it because it's good.
> the biggest hurdle to people caring about copyleft is the sheer tonnage of disrespect people like RMS show to others
No, the biggest hurdles to people caring about copyleft are by far the incompatibilities with accepted practices and existing software that make it a lot of work to comply with copyleft ideals.
RMS's tone never seemed disrespectful to me. Uncompromising and occasionally blunt, yes, but never disrespectful. What would you have had him do differently? Compromise his ideals? Spin out a comforting but insincere apology that focused on licensing technicalities rather than the underlying philosophical issues?