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 As [anarchists](anarchism.md) we of course despise the idea of worshiping people, creating [heroes](hero_culture.md) and cults of personalities, but the enormous [historical](history.md) significance of Stallman has to be stressed as a plain and simple fact and though we may disagree with some of his methods and even opinions, it's as clear as it can be that he acted [selflessly](selflessness.md), in favor of all people -- something that can be said about very few, if anyone at all. Most other old time hackers, such as [Eric S. Ramyond](esr.md) and [Rob Pike](rob_pike.md) immediately abandoned all ideals of ethics and jumped the capitalist train with the first sight of money, Stallman stayed opposed to it, and for this he has our uttermost respect. Even though in our days his name is overshadowed in the mainstream by rich businessman and creators of commercially successful technology and even though we ourselves disagree with Stallman on some points, in the future [history](history.md) may well see Stallman as perhaps the greatest man of the software era, and rightfully so. Stallman isn't a mere creator of a commercially successful software product or a successful politician, he is an extremely morally strong philosopher, a great example to others, a prophet, someone who sees the truth and shows it to people -- he brilliantly foresaw the course of history and quickly defined ethics needed for the new era of mass available programmable computers at the right time, before the hammer hit. And not only that, he also basically alone established this ethics as a standard IN SPITE of all the world's [corporations](corporation.md) [fighting](fight_culture.md) back, in a field that back then was relatively obscure, unpopular in mainstream and hence not much supported by any mass media. He is also extremely unique in not pursuing self interest, in TRULY living his own philosophy, dedicating his whole life to his cause and refusing to give in even partially. All of this is at much higher level than simply becoming successful and famous within the contemporary capitalist system, his life effort is pure, true and timeless, unlike things achieved by pieces of shit such as [Steve Jobs](steve_jobs.md).
 
+**Is Richard Stallman a celebrity?** This question is important to [us](lrs.md) because we dislike any celebrities. The answer is probably this: to a certain level he is a celebrity (though not nearly a Hollywood level celebrity, 99% of normal people never heard of him), but at least to a similar level he is just a well known expert on certain things. So yes, partially we have to dislike his celebrity part -- any worship of him as a God is acceptable only as a [meme](meme.md), we must never see him as a [hero](hero_culture.md). He seems to be a very rare case of a mini celebrity that managed to keep some morality, perhaps because his celebrity status, very uncommonly, came to him more because he wasn't careful enough to avoid it rather than because he actively pursued it. It's not an excuse -- if someone doesn't want to become a celebrity, he cannot become one -- but it may be an extenuating circumstance. This is to say: yes, it sucks he's a celebrity to some degree, but he's probably at least among the least harmful ones.
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 ## See Also
 
 - [John Gilmore](john_gilmore.md)
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 - [Jesus](jesus.md)
 - [Einstein](einstein.md)
 - [vrms](vrms.md)
+- [gentoo](gentoo.md)
 - [Linus Torvalds](torvalds.md)
 - [Alan Cox](alan_cox.md)
 - [Larry Wall](larry_wall.md)