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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.
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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 days ago · Richard Stallman, American computer programmer and free-software advocate who founded (1985) the Free Software Foundation. He also established the GNU project, which was involved in the creation of a free version of UNIX. Learn more about Stallman’s life and career.
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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.
Sep 18, 2019 · Sep 18, 2019 7:00 AM. Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd. The controversial pioneer of free software resigned from MIT over his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein and Marvin Minsky....
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.