Una sociedad capaz, fuerte, independiente, solidaria y libre. This book collects the writing of richard stallman in a manner that will make its subtlety and. The movement produced the gnu operating system, a free alternative to proprietary software such as the microsoft or apple operating. Stallman article about stallman by the free dictionary. Richard matthew stallman birthdaymonday, march 16, 1953 birthplacenew york city, united states nationalityamerican occupation president of the free software foundation known for free software movement, gnu, emacs, gcc richard stallman person richard m. Opensource religions employ opensource methods for the sharing, construction, and adaptation of religious belief systems, content, and practice. Much of computer codes are written by nonwhites, most of the hardware is developed and built in asia and so on. Rss site feed for the most recent political notes and new material.
Microsoft is running a patent protection racket, threatening to sue users of free software. Stallmans accomplishments have included, but are not limited to, the creation of the gnu public license, the free software foundation, and the gnu c compiler. What are richard stallmans contributions to open source. The future of free software without richard stallman. That system is jampacked with malicious functionalities, including surveillance of users, drm, censorship and a universal back door. In 1983, he created the free software movement, through which highly trained and often highly paid professionals give their time to producing software for the public good. Richard stallman academic dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Stallman has 48 books on goodreads with 4232 ratings. Richard stallman article about richard stallman by the. Richard stallman is something of a legend in the global software community. He did not, however, give us the entire operating system that commonly bears that name. In september 1983, richard stallman announced the plan to develop a free. For the sake of separation, this site has always been hosted elsewhere and managed separately. Richard stallman in oslo 2009 richard matthew stallman 16. Iha tinan 1985 nia funda fundasaun dezenvolvimentu software livre no babain ema bolu naran pae open source nian. He campaigns for saftware tae be distributit in a manner such that its uisers receive the freedoms tae uise, study, distribute an modify that saftware. Well, we can start by clarifying something you wrote. Reasons not to use microsoft richard stallmans personal. Stallman moris iha 16 marsu 1953, babain bolu iha social media rms, hanesan aktivista software livre no programador computer nian, iha semptem 1983 nia lansa gnu projetu. In comparison to religions utilizing proprietary, authoritarian, hierarchical, and changeresistant structures, opensource religions emphasize sharing in a cultural commons, participation, selfdetermination, decentralization, and evolution.
The fsf isnt linux and if youre so closeminded only to use stuff of white people, throw away your computer and dont use the internet any longer. Founder of gnu bestows blessing upon open hardwarefocused. Essays contained in this book deal mainly about ethics, law, business and their application to computer software. Richard matthew stallman born mairch 16, 1953, eften kent bi his ineetials, rms, is an american saftware freedom activist an programmer. The intersection of ethics, law, business and computer software is the subject of these essays and speeches by macarthur foundation grant winner, richard m. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. 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. Richard stallman the freedom defender whom we may not. As the founder of the free software foundation and the gnu project, he has done more for. For all its faults, stallman calls android a major step towards an ethical, usercontrolled, freesoftware portable phone. Stallman shares his thoughts on a number of topics.
Entrevista a richard stallman, creador del sistema gnu y maximo evangelista mundial del software libre. Richard stallman and the free software movement green left. The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the free software foundation or the gnu project. Even though the wikipedia artictle for richard stallman is fairly complete i understand that not knowing why is a guy is even famous is not motivation enough to go read the full article. Microsofts principal wrong is distributing a nonfree operating system, microsoft windows. The kernel is just the part of the operating system that. Richard stallman has resigned from both mit and the free software foundation. Richard matthew stallman, the subject of this weeks techie tuesdays, is a unique force to reckon with. The introduction is written by lawrence lessig, professor at harvard law school. Richard stallman calls crowd supply preferred platform for freelibre software, hardware. Richard stallman is the founder of the free software movement, the gnu project, and the free software foundation. He resigned from the ai lab at mit so he would be free to. Richard stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the gnu operating system.
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