That this is the first thing people talk about now is the point. It's not even relevant if RMS was right or wrong, it was that he lacked any awareness of how his argument must look to most bystanders.
As Cardinal Richelieu said: If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
It's perfectly clear what Stallman said and what he meant by it. But if there are bystanders with their own agendas, perhaps Stallman isn't the problem here.
It's not at all clear to me. I still don't get why he elaborated on his naive nonsense instead of just sticking with "let's maybe not judge dead people when they can't defend themselves for things that have not yet been proven even in other cases".
