This is the worst thing that I will read all day, probably for the next month.

So, what I concluded, and I'm just speaking my mind since I have no desire to further engage, is that the FSF intentionally adopted religious mechanisms of growth and cult-like thinking because they couldn't think of any other way to recruit enough software engineers to their cause. Most of the engineers grew disillusioned and left. What remains are the loudest zealots with the least code written. They have the most to gain from shouting their message, hoping to make it seem true so that someone else will write their drivers and desktop software.