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Richard Matthew Stallman (/ ˈ s t ɔː l m ən / STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software.
Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphoma. Treatment put it into remission, and he can expect to live many more years.
May 1, 2024 · Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American computer programmer and free-software advocate who founded (1985) the Free Software Foundation. Stallman earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University in 1974.
A Serious Bio. Richard Matthew Stallman leads the Free Software Movement, which shows how the usual non-free software subjects users to the unjust power of its developers, plus their spying and manipulation, and campaigns to replace it with free (freedom-respecting) software. Born in 1953, Stallman graduated Harvard in 1974 in physics.
Jun 12, 2014 · Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital age. He launched the GNU operating system, used with Linux as a component, and inspired the...
Sep 18, 2019 · The controversial pioneer of free software resigned from MIT over his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein and Marvin Minsky. Stallman won’t be the last.
Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organiser.
Dr. Richard Stallman ( stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software ( gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ). He and others began developing GNU in 1984.
Sep 22, 2019 · Richard Stallman, the 66-year-old programmer and animating spirit behind the free-software movement, was banished this week. He was told to leave the MIT offices he worked from, and sometimes...
Richard Stallman is an American programmer and a stalwart of the free software movement. Known to fellow hackers at MIT’s AI Lab as ‘rms’ or ‘RMS’, he worked on various projects like Emacs, TECO, and the LISP machine operating system (the CONS and the CADR).
