RMS is going to be sleeping on a friend of mine's couch (no joke). Apparently he prefers to stay with graduate students, rather than sleep in a hotel.

at Cal, I was in a student organization that kept a disused plastic grocery sack supposedly dropped by RMS inside an altoids tin marked "RMS BAG" as if it were a piece of the true cross.

Stallman and the tragedy of the commons? Irony? Or just zealots?

He's worth listening to even if you disagree with him, IMO.