Thomas Edison is portrayed in a pretty bad light nowadays. Was he actually as bad as people say?

by Tsundere_God

People seem to discredit a lot of what Edison did, and say he just ripped off of Nikola Tesla and many others. From what we know, how true is all of this? And was Nikola Tesla truly as far ahead of his time as people say he is, or is it all hyperbole?

essidus
pluutoni

after going thru some of the other posts linked here I still have to ask; what about the elephant being electrocuted story...?