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  1. Richard Matthew Stallman ( / ˈstɔːlmən / STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, [1] 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.

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  2. Learn about Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement. Read his political articles, notes, books, comics, and more on his personal web site.

  3. Mar 12, 2024 · Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) 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. In 1971, as a freshman at Harvard, he had begun working at the Artificial Intelligence ...

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  4. 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.

  5. Jun 12, 2014 · Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital... It is the first TEDx talk of the founder of Free Software movement.

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  6. In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field.

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  8. Nov 30, 2023 · by Richard Stallman The first software-sharing community. When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years. Sharing of software was not limited to our particular community; it is as old as computers, just as sharing of recipes is as old as cooking.

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