Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman is an American computer programmer and software freedom activist who founded the GNU project, which aims to create free software alternatives to commercial programs. His work matters because he pioneered the concept of "free software" as a movement for user rights and transparency in computing, influencing how millions of people think about software ownership and access today.
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Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), or moniker rms, is a Hacker, Programmer, and Software Freedom activist. He is the lead architect and organizer of the GNU Project, which succeeded in creation of a Unix-like operating system "GNU" and initiated the free software movement. He is well-known all around the world for his activism in software freedom. The operating system often called "Linux" (which is in fact a kernel that can run alongside <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+S
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Richard Matthew Stallman (/ˈstɔːlmən/ 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. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, developed the GNU C Compiler 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. With that he also launched the free software movement. He has been GNU Project's lead architect and organizer, and developed a number of pieces of widely used GNU software including among others, the GNU C Compiler (GCC) version 1.0 (that later was expanded and renamed GNU Compiler Collection), GNU Debugger, and GNU Emacs text editor.