Richard Matthew Stallman (/ˈstɔːlmən/ STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist...
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Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement...
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many, including Erik Möller, Lawrence Lessig, Benjamin Mako Hill and Richard Stallman. In February 2008, several Creative Commons licenses were "approved...
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(/ɡnuː/ ) is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. Its goal is to give computer users freedom and...
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auspices of the Free Software Foundation. The project was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000 and officially started in January 2001. It was moderated...
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (ISBN 0-596-00287-4) is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License...
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hacker culture and academia, Richard Stallman formally founded the movement in 1983 by launching the GNU Project. Stallman later established the Free Software...
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delivered proprietary software, Richard Stallman believed that LMI, unlike Symbolics, had tried to avoid hurting the lab. Stallman had proclaimed that "the prospect...
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and most ported, version of Emacs is GNU Emacs, which was created by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project. XEmacs is a variant that branched from GNU Emacs...
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is promoted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and its founder Richard Stallman. Their reasoning is that the GNU project was the main contributor for...
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include the GNU General Public License (GPL), originally written by Richard Stallman, which was the first software copyleft license to see extensive use;[non-primary...
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of free software that had been undergoing development since 1983 by Richard Stallman. While a separate working Unix-compatible system called Minix was later...
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also the project within which the free software concept originated. Richard Stallman, the founder of the project, views GNU as a "technical means to a social...
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The Church of Emacs, formed by Emacs and the GNU Project's creator Richard Stallman, is a parody religion. While it refers to vi as the "editor of the...
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like the Berkeley Software Distribution released in 1978 existed, Richard Stallman is credited with tying it to the sense under discussion and starting...
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first copyleft license for general use. It was originally written by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), for the GNU Project...
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began to treat software as a literary work covered by copyright law. Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in response to the rise of proprietary...
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software tools. Its development began in 1984 by GNU Project founder Richard Stallman, based on the Emacs editor developed for Unix operating systems. GNU...
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January 10, 1988, after Richard Stallman became dissatisfied with the lack of progress being made by a prior developer. Stallman and the FSF considered...
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the roof of the Great Dome and converting the Great Dome into R2-D2. Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program: What they had in common was mainly...
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Microsoft holds on the .NET Framework. De Icaza was criticized by Richard Stallman on the Software Freedom Day 2009, who labeled him as "Traitor to the...
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founder Richard Stallman". The Guardian. UK. Archived from the original on 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2012-02-16. Adhikari, Richard (2010-12-15). "Why Richard Stallman...
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both a tool and an example. When it was first released in 1987 by Richard Stallman, GCC 1.0 was named the GNU C Compiler since it only handled the C programming...
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users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware. Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) coined the term in reference...
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features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond,...
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they agreed to sell it under reasonable terms. The dispute between Richard Stallman and UniPress inspired the creation of the first formal license for...
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John Ousterhout 1988 Guy L. Steele Jr. 1989 W. Daniel Hillis 1990 Richard Stallman 1991 Feng-hsiung Hsu 1992 no award 1993 Bjarne Stroustrup 1994–1995...
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adopted by Richard Stallman in 1983, it was still ambiguously used to describe several kinds of software. In February 1986 Richard Stallman formally defined...
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Vinge, Larry Wall, Alan Cox, Peter H Salus, Richard Stallman 2005: Peter H. Salus (chair), Richard Stallman, Alan Cox, Lawrence Lessig, Guido van Rossum...
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very different place today." In 1987 Richard Stallman proposed using the Mach microkernel developed by Richard Rashid at Carnegie Mellon University....
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