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 authored the GNU General Public License, which implements copyleft, a concept he coined to protect the modification and redistribution rights of free software. Stallman is responsible for the core development of a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), and GNU Emacs.
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Early Life and Education
Richard Stallman was born March 16, 1953 to Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman in New York City
The GNU Project
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