The problem is not that people call out bad code but that they attack the person who wrote it. I bet that the voices criticizing Stallman now will not praise him for GNU next time they cash in on projects built on it.
> The problem is not that people call out bad code but that they attack the person who wrote it
If that's happening, I completely agree with you. I was mostly addressing the "bashing bash" part. Because the bashing of bash is what I've seen in the recent discussion. Not the bashing of RMS.