Definitely not. RMS-level uber-nerds are easy to dismiss because they have genuinely crazy views, and also because they tend to be super weird people.
We may agree with RMS that we should be free to own our computers and run whatever we want on them. But he says that commercial software should not exist. That's clearly insane, which makes it easy to dismiss everything he says as insane, even if a lot of it isn't.
Similarly, the man himself is extremely weird and creepy. It's easy to dismiss him on those grounds too even if they don't directly relate to tech things.
What we definitely need is more normal people with normal view that support normal software freedoms without going to crazy extremes.
