RMS

I feel like everyone's just too polite to say that Richard Stallman's just another programmer.  What has he actually done?  He's tried to attach himself to the coattails of Linux with his infamous "interjection," but his own Unix effort took 30 years and is mostly unused.  What else?  Emacs?  Does the author of Notepad++ get worldwide recognition for his efforts?

I'm not saying the man's useless, just that there are people who do more for less recognition.  Enough zealotry already.

Didn't RMS wrote the first gcc version? Linus used gcc to compile his own kernel when he was working on it. I think it's enough to prove that GNU is important and without it, there might have been no Linux. It's 4:44 am where I live, please forgive my grammar.