Richard Matthew Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman
Founder, GNU software project, Free Software Foundation.
United States of America

http://www.fsf.org/

Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom.

Stallman was born on March 16, 1953, Manhattan, NY. He had his degree from Harvard University in 1971.Stallman spent the summer after his high-school graduation writing his first program, a preprocessor for the IBM 7094 written in the PL/I programming language. Stallman also worked as Laboratory Assistant in the Biology Department at Rockefeller University.


He is perhaps better known by his initials, "RMS". In the first edition of the Hacker's dictionary, he wrote, '"Richard Stallman" is just my mundane name; you can call me "rms".In 1985, Stallman published the GNU Manifesto, which outlined his motivation for creating a free operating system called GNU, which would be compatible with Unix. The name GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. Soon after, he incorporated the non-profit Free Software Foundation (FSF) to employ free software programmers and provide a legal framework for the free software community. He is a notable programmer whose major accomplishments include GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger.
Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation says that
"The word 'Free' doesn't refer to price; it refers to freedom,"



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