Richard Matthew Stallman, Richard Matthew Stormman, Spirit of Free Software Sports, Founder, Free Software Foundation, famous hacker. His biggest impact is to stand ethical, political and legal framework for free software motion. He was known as a fighter, great idealist of today's free software.
Stormman was born in Manhattan, New York in the United States in 1953. In 1971, S.
During the AI laboratory work, Stormman has developed a variety of far-reaching software, the most famous is Emacs. Stormman is a typical hacker in AI and is a part of the whole hacker culture.
However, after entering the 1980s, the hacker community has gradually taking the strong pressure of the software industrial commercialization. Even many hackers in the AI laboratory have also formed Symbolic, trying to replace the product of hackers in the laboratory in patent software. - Freely flowable software.
Stormman feels angry and helpless. After a fight against Symbolic, he published a famous GNU Declaration in 1985, officially announced to start a grand plan: create a complete free, compatible with UNIX operating system GNU (GNU's Not UNIX!). After that he has established a Free Software Foundation to assist the plan.
He drafted the GNU General Publication, GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU General Public License, GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU GNU, and the concept of "copyright", and copylefts.
Stormman is a firm free software sports advocate, unlike other people who advocate open source, Stormman is not from the perspective of software quality from the perspective of morality. He believes that using patented software is a very unethical thing, only programs included in the source code are in line with their moral standards. Many people have expressed their objection, and they also have a free software movement and open source software movement.
Stormmann has won the 1990 Macrthur Fellowship (Macarthur Fellowship) 1991 US Computer Association (Association for Computing Machinery) issued the Emacs text editor he developed in 1996, the honor of Royal College of Technology Doctoral degree 1998 Electronic Front Front Foundation (Pioneer Award) 1999 Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award 2001 Wushu University Honorary Ph.D. in 2001 2001 Wood Research Reware (Wudata Research Qi Reminder) Be the United States Academician of the National Academy of Engineering was awarded a Ph.D. in the University of Reselor University in 2003
