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Love him. His one hot take, which was completely misconstrued by the Twitter mafia, doesn't take away from the fact that he's been right for 50 years straight.
We'd still be in the IT stone ages without him. If you don't believe me just look at the software they used to charge money for in the 1990's.
Microsoft would have likely taken over the Web Server market just as they had the Desktop market, without him. The internet would be a fraction of the size it is now.
I wish his license had allowed for more equitable distribution of profits. It's a crying shame companies can build billion dollar enterprises off of open source software and not pay devs a penny. It's a problem that continues to hobble libre open source software all the way into today. But he's stated he's not a socialist so I can't hold that against him too much.