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Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Movement, and of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).


In the 1970s, Stallman was a legendary hacker at MIT's AI Lab. He left in 1984 to found the FSF, and to start the GNU project. He is also the author of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), the licence most widely used by open source software programmers, and the model on which Creative Commons licences are based. (from the profile by Richard Poynder)


Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Movement, and of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Interview by Richard Poynder [http://poynder.blogspot.com/], here at
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-richard-stallman.html
 
Part of the Basement Interview series at
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/basement-interviews.html


In the 1970s, Stallman was a legendary hacker at MIT's AI Lab. He left in 1984 to found the FSF, and to start the GNU project. He is also the author of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), the licence most widely used by open source software programmers, and the model on which Creative Commons licences are based.


Interview by Richard Poynder, here at
[[Category:Interviews]]
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-richard-stallman.html


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Latest revision as of 04:54, 24 December 2011

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Movement, and of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

In the 1970s, Stallman was a legendary hacker at MIT's AI Lab. He left in 1984 to found the FSF, and to start the GNU project. He is also the author of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), the licence most widely used by open source software programmers, and the model on which Creative Commons licences are based. (from the profile by Richard Poynder)

Interview by Richard Poynder [1], here at http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-richard-stallman.html

Part of the Basement Interview series at http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/basement-interviews.html