Comparing the two is a bit like comparing Thomas Paine to Thomas Edison.

Stallman created a movement. A movement that largely predicted the ways technology and society interact. I think in 100 years people will still using the GPL. I can't say that about the iPod.

BS. Free software existed well before Stallman.

The first BSD work predated GNU by a good seven years.

The first BSD license is not Copyleft.

Emacs has allowed me to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. Apple products? Nope.

It's a text editor.

Yes. I edit text for a living.

Anyone can write a text editor though. It's fairly simple.

It's beyond bizarre to compare the creation of a massive company, thousands of jobs, numerous earth shattering products which enhance the lives of millions, with a text editor a few programmers use.

IMHO Stallman has been a net negative on the computer industry, and will not be remembered fondly outside the emacs niche userbase.