The real geeks I know would at least dream of building a computer of which they control all pieces of software. Maybe for the achievement only, but they at least dream of it.

I am pretty sure that RMS gets his work done as well, whatever that work is. I wouldn't suspect him to be _lazy_.

You do realise that a big part of RMS's job is sending email, right?

How do their achievements stack up against RMS?

People were getting work done back when RMS's computer would have been cutting edge.