Torvolds will not go down in history as an eloquent writer. I do not agree however, that he was comparing McCain to Stallman. In fact, Torvolds doesn't refer to McCain anywhere in the post.
Torvolds brings up his issue with Stallman/FSF/GPL3 to point out that he, Torvolds, bases his positions on situation; "it depends" which is why he titled the post "Black and white".
Don't mean to nitpick or distract from your main point, but you spelled it wrong 4 times over 2 posts - unless I'm missing some subtlety of Finnish names, it should be "Torvalds".
Torvolds brings up his issue with Stallman/FSF/GPL3 to point out that he, Torvolds, bases his positions on situation; "it depends" which is why he titled the post "Black and white".