Free Software Free Society 3rd Edition by Richard M. Stallman

There he became a regular in the hacker community, where he was usually known by his initials, 'RMS' (which was the name of his computer accounts). In June 1971, as a first year student at Harvard University, Stallman became a programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT. Although he was already moving toward a career in mathematics or physics, his teaching professor at Rockefeller thought he would have a future as a biologist. 'I first wrote it in PL/I, then started over in assembly language when the PL/I program was too big to fit in the computer' he later said.ĭuring this time, Stallman was also a volunteer Laboratory Assistant in the biology department at Rockefeller University. Hired by the IBM New York Scientific Centre, Stallman used the summer after his high-school graduation writing his first program, a preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360. His first access to a computer came during his senior year at high school in 1969. Stallman was born in Manhattan, New York, to Alice Lippman and Daniel Stallman. Stallman's renowned software accomplishments include developing the original Emacs, GNU Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time as a political campaigner advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against both patenting software and expansions of copyright law. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. Also in the 1980s, he founded the free software movement, and the Free Software Foundation.

In the 1980s, he founded the GNU Project to create a free unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is both an acclaimed software freedom activist and software developer. President, Free Software Foundation as an unpaid volunteer Richard Stallman at the 2005 Fosdem in Brussels Related subjects: Computing People Richard Stallman

Free Software Free Society 3rd Edition by Richard M. Stallman