In a philosophy anticipating that of free software and open source, anyone could perform in his name and thus contribute to and participate in his fame and achievements.
[1] It further alludes to: Zack called upon his correspondents to adopt the name Monty Cantsin.
His suggestion was taken up in 1979 by the Hungarian-Canadian performance artist Istvan Kantor, who amalgamated the name into Neoism.
The "open pop star" concept lived on in a series of electropop and industrial music albums and performances of, mainly, Istvan Kantor.
Later multiple names like Karen Eliot and Luther Blissett drew inspiration from Monty Cantsin and Neoism, but intentionally avoided association with physical persons, being conceived either as mere signatures (Eliot), collective media phantoms (Blissett) or multiple single collective experiments.