I think it's really the proper duty of everyone who understands to help protect intellectual freedoms. We don't need a popular cult of personality to make it wo

I think it's really the proper duty of everyone who understands to help protect intellectual freedoms. We don't need a popular cult of personality to make it work. His writings from 30 years ago are very relevant and prophetic even today, but like Ayn Rand people conflate the personality with the idea, an idea which stands on it's own merit when you separate it from Stallman. However he is amusingly charismatic, my entire family still remembers him from an FSF picnic roughly 20 years ago. Thankfully his publicist intercepted my wife before he could really get into it, but my daughter (who was 3-4 at the time) still vividly recalls his explanation of why he couldn't swim under water (might forget to how to breathe upon surfacing). Also my family paid me the highest compliment by afterwards describing Stallman as being "just like daddy"...