Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953) is a software freedom activist and software developer. In 1983 he launched the Free Software Movement, as well as his plans to develop the GNU Operating System, a completely free Unix-like operating system. Two years later, in October of 1985, he started the Free Software Foundation, of which he is still president and volunteer.

Stallman also authored the GNU General Public License, which implements copyleft, a concept he coined to protect the modification and redistribution rights of free software.

Early Life and Education

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The GNU Project

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