Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movem
ent, the GNU project, and the Free Software Foundation. He is also a famous hack
er. He created GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. He is one of
the main authors of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), the most u
sed free software license, which pioneered the concept of the copyleft.
An image of Richard Stallman taken from the cover of the O'Reilly book Free as i
n Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams (2002).
Since the mid-1990s, he has spent most of his time as a political campaigner, ta
lking about free software and campaigning against proprietary software, software
idea patents and expansions of copyright law. The time that he still spends on
programming is spent on GNU Emacs. He is currently supported by various fellowsh
ips and maintains a modest standard of living.
Other websites
Stallman.org
Richard Stallman's personal homepage
Richard Stallman's blog
Works by Richard Stallman at Project Gutenb