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Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman, 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 Foundatio…
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Born 16 March 1953 · Q7439
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https:// stallman.org/glossary.html#epa https:// actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t he-epa-dont-muzzle-data-center-protests US citizens: call on the EPA not to exclude the public from data center pollution decisions.
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2026· 23 entries
“https:// civicshout.com/p/cornell-must- stand-by-its-own-students US citizens: call on Cornell University to stand by commitments it made to its students who were being persecuted by hateful officials.”
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“https:// stallman.org/glossary.html#epa https:// actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t he-epa-dont-muzzle-data-center-protests US citizens: call on the EPA not to exclude the public from data center pollution decisions.”
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“https:// civicshout.com/p/congress-must -investigate-dhs-s-secret-surveillance US citizens: call on Congress to investigate the Department of Hiding and Skulking's secret surveillance. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.”
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“https:// stallman.org/glossary.html#bul ly https:// civicshout.com/p/media-must-co ver-trump-s-welker-attack-as-authoritarianism-2 US citizens: call on the media to stop covering the bully's attacks on journalists as outbursts and start covering them as deliberate, escalating attempts to use government power to silence the press.”
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“https:// civicshout.com/p/tell-congress -no-drilling-near-the-grand-canyon US citizens: call on Congress not to allow drilling near the Grand Canyon. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.”
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“[2/2] trivial, but not hard. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.”
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“[1/2] https:// actionnetwork.org/letters/tell -congress-pause-the-data-center-boom?nowrapper=true https:// stallman.org/actionnetwork-let ter-instructions.html US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to support a bill to for a moratorium on construction of data centers I suggest you eliminate the term "AI" from your letter. You might say "pretend intelligence" instead. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not”
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“https:// actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-a buse-keep-cfpb-consumer-complaints-public US citizens: call on the CFPB to limit gouging by businesses by continuing to publish consumers' complaints.”
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“https:// act.commoncause.org/petitions/ protect-birthright-citizenship-2?source=direct_link& ; US citizens: Protect birthright citizenship.”
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“https://www. fightforthefuture.org/actions/ flockout/#lowes?sou US citizens: call on Lowe's to remove its Flock surveillance cameras.”
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“We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. “Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.”
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“I am resigning effective immediately from my position in [the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSail] at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.”
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“[3/3] than as an unjust racist attack has made it harder for society to cope with situations like this one, and harder to clearly express condemnation of racism.”
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“[2/3] contemplate the word in the abstract, and discuss its meaning and implications (such as, a racist attitude) without losing their wits. They could criticize the word's racist attitude without terror of violating the taboo if they said which word they were criticizing. If they heard a touretter say it, and understood that the touretter did not mean to characterize anyone with it, they did not hold that against per. The change to regard the word "nigger" as a shocking profanity rather”
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“[1/3] https://www. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ 2026/feb/25/baftas-bbc-n-word-john-davidson-black-disabled-people https:// stallman.org/archives/2019-sep -dec.html#21_October_2019_(Fired_for_mentioning_a_word) John Davidson, who has Tourette's syndrome, said the taboo word "nigger" with no conscious intention while two blacks were on stage. People freaked out. A few decades ago, antiracists understood the word as an unjust insult - when it was meant to characterize someone. But people could”
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“https:// stallman.org/glossary.html#bul ly https:// theonion.com/trump-warns-iran- to-accept-his-ultimatum-or-face-wrath-of-next-ultimatum/ (satire) *[The bully] Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum.*”
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“https:// theonion.com/u-s-instates-mili tary-wife-draft/ (satire) *U.S. Instates Military Wife Draft.*”
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“https:// act.demandprogress.org/sign/ns pm-7-prison-sentences/?t=1004&akid=35458%2E96703%2EKuzx4o US citizens: call on Congress to terminate the bully's NSPM-7 political persecution crusade. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.”
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“https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/aug /06/israel-charges-west-bank-settler-killing-palestinian-activist-awdah-hathaleen Israel is prosecuting one of the violent right-wing "settlers" for killing a Palestinian journalist in the West Bank. Such a prosecution ought to regularly follow their crimes, but instead it is news, because Israel generally protects those killers.”
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“https://www. theguardian.com/science/2026/a ug/03/children-using-social-media-younger-age-worse-school-tests * Pupils who open [antisocial media] accounts [at the age of] 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects [at age 16] than those who wait a few years [to open such accounts], study finds.*”
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“[3/3] the big role of businesses in it. Another is the long and slow shift that leaves the non-rich with less and less of society's productive capacity.”
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“[2/3] climate disaster. Focusing on "affordability" of everyday life is partly a mistake, and partly a response to pressure from billionaires who figure that will lead towards weak palliative measures rather to any big change to transfer wealth. The increasing cost of living is a consequence of deeper injustices, one of which is the growing cost of climate disaster (including food plagued by agricultural failure). Another is the growing cost of medical treatment, which stems largely from”
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2024· 2 entries
Benzinga.com: Edward Snowden Echoes Richard Stallman's Warnings On Proprietary Software After User Says 'Adobe Can Not Be Trusted'
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Fast Company: richard stallman
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2021· 7 entries
Business Insider: The influential Free Software Foundation defends the return of controversial programmer Richard Stallman to its board, but vocal critics aren't buying it
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Business Insider: Developers say that the firestorm over controversial developer Richard Stallman is a moment of reckoning for the open source industry
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Ars Technica: Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board
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SD Times: Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation
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Ars Technica: Richard Stallman returns to FSF 18 months after controversial rape comments
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The Verge: Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019
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Returned to the FSF board of directors and others
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2019· 3 entries
Stallman announced his resignation from both MIT and FSF, "due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations"
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Stallman acknowledged that since the time of those writings, he had learned that there were problems with underage sex, writing on his blog: "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how
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“due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations”
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2018· 1 entry
Stallman instituted "Kind Communication Guidelines" for the GNU project to help its mailing list discussions remain constructive while avoiding explicitly promoting diversity
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (2016).
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“Citation choisie pour le 1 août 2016.”
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Software System Award (2015).
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2014· 3 entries
“Citation choisie pour le 16 avril 2014.”
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“Citation choisie pour le 29 mars 2014.”
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“Citation choisie pour le 21 mars 2014.”
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2013· 3 entries
VentureBeat: Free software guru Richard Stallman: Patents are crushing us
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Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2013).
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InfoWorld: Richard Stallman, unrepentant: ‘Apple is your enemy’
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2010· 3 entries
“I’m the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don’t really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.”
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“Extreme Pornography Law in the UK”
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“Il movimento del software libero non si identifica generalmente con la destra o la sinistra politiche. Non ha una posizione su questioni politiche al di fuori della libertà di usare un programma e dei diritti fondamentali di chi utilizza un computer. (da un messaggio inviato alla lista discussioni@softwarelibero.it, 5 marzo 2010)”
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2008· 2 entries
gizmodo: Three Science Fiction Novels Recommended by Richard Stallman
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Clarified that it is blocking the user's freedom that he believes is a crime, not the issue of charging for software
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2007· 1 entry
Following a cease and desist letter from Universal Edition
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2006· 2 entries
And 2007, during the eighteen month public consultation for the drafting of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, he added a fourth topic explaining the proposed changes
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Protesting against proprietary software in April 2006, Stallman held a "Don't buy from ATI, enemy of your freedom" placard at an invited talk given by an ATI compiler architect in the building where Stallman worked, resulting in the police being called.
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2004· 2 entries
“La società ha bisogno di libertà: quando un programma ha un padrone, l'utilizzatore perde la libertà di controllare parte della sua vita. (dall'intervista di Eugenio Occorso, Stallman: "Libero software in libera società", la Repubblica, 21 giugno 2004)”
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“Combattere i brevetti uno ad uno non eliminerà mai il pericolo dei brevetti software, così come uccidere le zanzare non significa sconfiggere la malaria. (da Contro i brevetti sul software – individualmente ed insieme, traduzione di Vasco Maria Cleri, Giorgio V. Felchero, Paola Blason e Domenico Delle Side, 9 settembre 2004)”
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2003).
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2002· 3 entries
“Date valore alla vostra libertà, o la perderete, ci insegna la storia. "Non annoiarci con la politica", risponde chi non vuole apprendere. (da Linux, GNU e libertà, LinuxWorld, maggio 2002)”
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“Ai geek piace illudersi di poter ignorare la politica: potete anche ignorarla, ma la politica non ignorerà voi. (da O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3, 26 luglio 2002)”
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“Talvolta qualcuno mi chiede se nella Chiesa dell'Emacs non sia considerato peccato ricorrere al vi. Usarne una versione libera non è peccato, ma è una penitenza. Happy hacking a tutti. (citato in Sam Williams, Codice Libero. Richard Stallman e la crociata per il software libero, 2002, cap. 5 – Sant'Ignucius)”
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow (2001).
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Awarded Takeda Awards (2001).
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“Sulla base di anni di conversazioni, mi sono convinto che una parte della causa del problema è la tendenza a chiamare il sistema Linux invece che GNU, e di descriverlo come open source invece che come software libero. (da un'intervista su BYTE.com – Free Or Not Free, 13 marzo 2001)”
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1999· 8 entries
Awarded Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award (1999).
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“Upon receiving the Linus Torvalds Award at Linuxworld, (1999)”
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Stallman called for development of a free online encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles
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“The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource" (1999)”
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“Recibiendo el premio Linus Torvalds Award en Linuxworld, (1999)”
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In 1999, Stallman called for development of a free online encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles.
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“The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource”
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“Richard Stallman portait le projet GNUPedia depuis 1999”
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1998· 5 entries
Awarded EFF Award (1998).
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“Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism”
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“The GNU Project", originally published in Open Sources (1998)”
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“[Sul perché si risolse contro la scrittura di software proprietario.] In questo modo avrei potuto guadagnare, e forse mi sarei divertito a programmare. Ma sapevo che al termine della mia carriera mi sarei voltato a guardare indietro, avrei visto anni spesi a costruire muri per dividere le persone, e avrei compreso di aver contribuito a rendere il mondo peggiore. (da Il progetto GNU, 1998)”
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“On the kde-licensing mailing list, (April 13, 1998)”
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1997· 1 entry
“Il copyleft è usato con uno spirito di sinistra, uno scopo di sinistra: incoraggiare le persone a cooperare e ad aiutarsi reciprocamente e a dare a tutti la stessa libertà. (da Il copyright è di destra, il copyleft è di sinistra, intervista a cura di MediaMente, Rai Educational, Roma, 5 dicembre 1997)”
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1996· 2 entries
“MEME 2.04, an interview with David S. Bennahum (1996)”
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“Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing (1996)”
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1993· 13 entries
“Si valoramos nuestra libertad, podemos mantenerla y defenderla.”
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“Los estados deberían apostar por el software libre para recobrar la soberanía informática del país.”
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“Traducción: «Cuando hago esto, la gente piensa que es porque quiero alimentar mi ego, ¿verdad? Por supuesto, ¡no pido que se le llame “Stallmanix!.”
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“Si ves a alguien ahogarse y sabes nadar, tienes el deber moral de salvarlo, a no ser que sea Bush o Aznar.”
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“What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done.”
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“People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.”
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“A lot of people think of a computer as just a tool, and they don't ask themselves who decides what they can do with the tool and what they can't do with the tool.”
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“It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. ... Somebody is saying this is inevitable—and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”
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“His reaction to a baby announcement on a SFBA social mailing list (21 February 1993), as quoted in "RMS -vs- Doctor, on the evils of Natalism" at Art.net”
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“Cuando me preguntan cuándo estará listo un programa, contesto: depende de cuánto trabajes en ello.”
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“Si el ejército usa Windows, está en peligro de ser atacado por una puerta trasera.”
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“I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.”
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“Very ironic things have happened, but nothing to match this — giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is sort of like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Fleet.”
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1991· 2 entries
“Why Software Should Be Free (1991)”
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Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student studying at the University of Helsinki, used the GNU's development tools to produce the free monolithic Linux kernel
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1990).
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Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1990).
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Members of the GNU project began using Carnegie Mellon's Mach microkernel in a project called GNU Hurd, which has yet to achieve the maturity level required for full POSIX compliance
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1989· 2 entries
Co-founded the League for Programming Freedom
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The first program-independent GNU General Public License (GPL) was released
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1985· 4 entries
Stallman published the GNU Manifesto, which outlined his motivation for creating a free operating system called GNU, which would be compatible with Unix
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“[this document has a footnote mentioning that the word "free" was not used as carefully in this 1985 Manifesto as it should have been]”
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Career landmark: president (1985–2019).
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“GNU Manifesto — first published in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools (March 1985)”
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1984· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chief GNUisance (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
I've campaigned for freedom since 1983, and I am not going to surrender that freedom for the sake of a more convenient computer." Stallman's Lemote was stolen from him in 2012 while he was in Argentina.
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1980· 2 entries
Stallman and some other hackers at the AI Lab were refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700
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“A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness — not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”
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1979· 1 entry
Placed time bombs in the Scribe markup language and word processing system to restrict unlicensed access to the software, Stallman proclaimed it "a crime against humanity"
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1978· 2 entries
“Reaction to the first spam, after receiving a copy of it (9 May 1978) as quoted in "Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978”
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“First reaction to reports of the first commercial "spam" email, sent by DEC salesman, Gary Thuerk (May 8, 1978), as quoted in "Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978”
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1977· 2 entries
Stallman found a way to decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password, with a suggestion to change it to the empty string (that is, no password) instead, to re-enable anonymous access to
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On an AI truth maintenance system, called dependency-directed backtracking
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1971· 1 entry
Near the end of his first year at Harvard, he became a programmer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and became a regular in the hacker community, where he was usually known by his initials, RMS, which he use
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1970· 1 entry
After his senior year of high school, to write a numerical analysis program in Fortran
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-03-16.
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