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Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphoma. Treatment put it into remission, and he can expect to live many more years. However, he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19. FSF Giving Guide.
Richard Matthew Stallman (/ ˈ s t ɔː l m ən / STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, 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.
Jun 12, 2014 · Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital age. He launched the GNU operating system, used with Linux as a component, and inspired the development...
Richard Matthew Stallman leads the Free Software Movement, which shows how the usual non-free software subjects users to the unjust power of its developers, plus their spying and manipulation, and campaigns to replace it with free (freedom-respecting) software.
Jul 4, 2024 · Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American computer programmer and free-software advocate who founded (1985) the Free Software Foundation. Stallman earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University in 1974.
Nov 2, 2021 · The GNU Manifesto (which appears below) was written by Richard Stallman in 1985 to ask for support in developing the GNU operating system. Part of the text was taken from the original announcement of 1983.
On September 27, 1983, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) posted the initial announcement of GNU, his project to develop a fully free (as in freedom) operating system. Although the GNU Project wouldn't officially start until January 1984, RMS's announcement outlines GNU's initial plan of development and core components.
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Jan 1, 2024 · Richard M. Stallman is the most forceful and famous practitioner/theorist of free software, a term he coined. “Free” here means free as in “free speech,” not free as in “free beer.”. Stallman's most famous intervention in the “free software” movement has surely been the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), which Stallman created ...
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984.
