Richard Stallman
👥 8 conferences
🎤 8 talks
📅 Years active: 2014 to 2019
📊 Wikidata: Q7439
Biography
Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in 1983 when he announced he would develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to consist entirely of free software. He has been the GNU Project's leader ever since. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
Since the mid-1990s, Richard Stallman, also known as RMS, has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used programs that are components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.
Conferences
8 known conferences