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Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Movement, and of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). | 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. | 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, here at | Interview by Richard Poynder, here at | ||
Revision as of 07:59, 30 March 2006
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, here at http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-richard-stallman.html