Richard stallman biography book pdf

American free software activist and GNU Project founder (born 1953)

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Richard stallman biography book pdf

For the flutist, see Robert Stallman. For the speculative fiction author, see Robert Lester Stallman.

Richard Matthew Stallman (STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms,^[1] is an American free software movement activist and programmer.

He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985,^[2] developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License.

Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to write a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software.^[3] With that he also launched