And the world, people as a mob, will try its best to punish that person for daring to be different. The nail that sticks out gets beaten.

RMS is a flawed person, a stubborn unreasonable man with questionable traits. But dismissing his life's work as "said some decent things" is just ignorant revisionist history. We can acknowledge his flaws while respecting the work he did and the overall message, which changed the world for the better.