Yes. That Stallman is arguably one of the top few people why we have the internet as it is, at all today.

Most other people could be “replaced”. If it wasn’t X, it would be Y. But only Stallman pushed the copyleft license onto Linux. Only Stallman’s organization popularized it.

So yes, that sexist, neurodivergent, bigoted Stallman, is one of the most positively influential people of our time.