On the OpenBSD mailing list recently, there’s been an ongoing flamewar between Richard Stallman on one side, and apparently everyone else on the list on the other. Now, I happen to think that RMS is either mistaken, or that his beliefs are unreasonably extreme in this case. However, he’s earned my respect for remaining calm, polite, and on-topic. Various other participants in the discussion, on the OpenBSD side, have basically resorted to ad-hominem attacks; one guy continuously posts pages and pages of ranting about RMS’ hypocrisy, and Theo de Raadt can apparently come up with little better in the way of argument than "you’re a slimy hypocrite, when was the last time you wrote any code?"; not exactly showing themselves in a good light.