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Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman is an american programmer and founder of the Free Software Foundation.[1] He is known for promoting free software.

Works at MIT

He worked at MIT from 1971 to 1984.[2] While at MIT, he wrote the Emacs editor.[1][2] He left MIT over his concerns about the copyright of the software he was developing for them[1]

Free Software Foundation

Further reading : Free software movement

The Free Software Foundation is a foundation Stallman created to support the GNU project, and later the GNU/Linux operating system. This later resulted in the creation of the Copyleft system.[1]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 William L., Hosch (2025-10-05). "Richard Stallman - American computer programmer".
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stallman, Richard. "A serious bio".
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