Richard Stallman Alive
Richard Stallman
KindPerson
Born1953
StatusAlive
Fieldoperating systems
Also known asrms
Sourcewww.gnu.org ↗
Launched GNU and the GPL (1983), wrote GCC and Emacs — free software's founder and its license's author.
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Created The GNU Manifesto
Founded the GNU project and Free Software Foundation (1983/85), wrote GCC and Emacs, and created the copyleft concept — the GPL is his answer to proprietary software.\n\nThe most influential and most controversial figure in free software; 'free as in freedom' is his formulation.