Well it's time you admit that "whacko" is the father and face of your movement, and until you get rid of him, which you never will, you can't just wish him away. We all saw Torvalds wilt before him just last week.
I never said RMS is the father or the face of OSS. Yes, he's the most well-known figure, and one that MS shills (like you) love to associate with any OSS advocate they meet.
RMS is to most of the OSS community as Lincoln Chafee is to the Republican Party--a total hack who most good people ignore.
Prove that Torvalds wilted to RMS~Last I heard, Torvalds said no way to GPL v.3.
Yeah, sounds like he wilted to me. /sarc
Stallman admits that the "movement" was common practice at MIT by the time he got there. In the acadamic world software was shared with those who asked for it, and re-shared, and re-shared. What set him off was when they got a PDP and he was suddenly told he had to sign an NDA and couldn't share anything anymore. So he just started writing his own OS, the beginning of GNU, thus the "free software movement" as you know it.
Really what the GPL/GNU/FSF tries to do is recreate the rules that the old hacker community lived by before Stallman even joined it.