Not only has he been an uncompromising purveyor of free software, but he also founded the free software movement, which now has thousands of volunteers and many more supporters across the world. Richard stallman simple english wikipedia, the free. Richard stallman creador del proyecto gnu software libre. If you look up love in collins english dictionary, you will find the word defined as an intense emotion of affection, warmth, fondness, and regard towards a person or thing.
Why free software evangelist richard stallman is haunted. Richard stallman renuncia al mit tras defender a jeffrey. Stallman article about stallman by the free dictionary. Stallman definicion y significado diccionario ingles collins. Stallman definition of stallman by the free dictionary. More than 30 years ago, richard stallman quit a doctorate program at the mit to start the gnu project, a free software operating system. For the sake of separation, this site has always been hosted elsewhere and managed separately. He is credited with founding the gnu project in 1984 first announced in 1983, and the free software foundation in 1985. Ein gesprach mit richard stallman januar 2000 memento vom 2. Born in 1953, stallman graduated harvard in 1974 in physics. Stallman, godfather of free software and open source, has resigned.
Richard stallman, creador del movimiento del software libre. Richard stallman, creador del movimiento del software. The terms free software and open source stand for almost the same range of programs. Richard stallman born march 16, 1953 is the founder of the free software movement, the gnu project, and the free software foundation.
Stallman launched the gnu project, founded the free software foundation, developed the gnu compiler collection and gnu emacs, and wrote the gnu general public license. Tectum wissenschaftsverlag, marburg 2004, isbn 3828887694 auch kostenfrei als ebook html pdf epub unter einer cclizenz erhaltlich. General public licence, bsd licence, mit license, mozilla license. Two alternatives which stallman does accept are software libre and unfettered software, but free software is the term he asks people to use in english. In 1983, richard stallman, one of the original authors of the popular emacs program and a longtime member of the hacker community at the mit artificial intelligence laboratory, announced the gnu project, the purpose of. For similar reasons, he argues for the term proprietary software rather than closedsource software, when referring to software that is not free software. Richard matthew stallman wikipedia, a enciclopedia livre. Every year on the fourteenth of february the world celebrates the idea of love. Rss site feed for the most recent political notes and new material. Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to. Richard matthew stallman leads the free software movement, which shows how the usual nonfree software subjects users to the unjust power of its developers, plus their spying and manipulation, and campaigns to replace it with free freedomrespecting software. As for statutory rape, stallman said, it is morally absurd to define rape in a. Founder of gnu project and free software foundation, father and current maintainer of the one true emacs.
In october 1985 he founded the free software foundation fsf. Personal essays, political opinions, travel experiences, brief biography. He resigned from the ai lab at mit so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. Stallman also stated on his own blog he was resigning from mit. He went on to establish the free software foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. Read the master in a background of quietly understated elegance. Image courtesy richard stallman bio richard matthew stallman is a software developer and selftitled software freedom activist. The first emacs was a set of macros written in 1976 at mit by rms richard m. In september 2019, he resigned as president of the fsf and left his visiting scientist role at mit. Richard stallman resigns from free software foundation after. Richard stallman lo explica en esta video entrevista. Why open source misses the point of free software gnu project. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute, and modify that software.
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