Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman, a.k.a. RMS, (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU project, and the Free Software Foundation. He is also a renowned hacker, whose major accomplishments include GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. He is also the author of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), the most widely-used free software license, which pioneered the concept of the copyleft.

Links and references

Publications by Richard Stallman

• Stallman, Richard M. & Sussman, Gerald J. (November 1975). Heuristic Techniques in Computer-Aided Circuit Analysis, published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-22 (11)
• Stallman, Richard M. & Sussman, Gerald J. (1977). Forward Reasoning and Dependency-Directed Backtracking In a System for Computer-Aided Circuit analysis, published in Artificial Intelligence 9 pp.135-196
• Stallman, Richard M. (1981). EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable, Self-Documenting Display Editor. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory publication AIM-519A. PDF HTML
• Stallman, Richard M. (2002). GNU Emacs Manual: Fifteenth edition for GNU Emacs Version 21. Cambridge, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 188211485X.
• Stallman, Richard M. (2002). Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 1882114981. (Also available online in various formats, e.g. PDF http://notabug.com/2002/rms-essays.pdf.)
• Stallman et al (2004). GNU Make: A Program for Directed Compilation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 1882114833.

Bibliography

• Williams, Sam (2002): ', O'Reilly Press. ISBN 0596002874. Also available over the web under the GFDL http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/.)
• Gay, Joshua (ed) (2002): . Boston: GNU Press. ISBN 1882114981. Also available over the web: http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/rms-essays.pdf.)
• Christian Imhorst, Anarchy and Source Code - What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?, 2005 - http://imhorst.com/en/anarchy_and_sourcecode.html

External links

• stallman.org - Richard Stallman's personal homepage.
• His weblog
• Free Unix! - The original GNU announcement
• GNU philosophy pages - Contains around 50 essays, mostly written by RMS.
• Prince Kropotkin of Software Chapter 3 of the open ebook Portraits of Open Source Pioneers

Speeches

• The GNU Philosophy Audio pages - Ogg Vorbis recordings of 15 speeches by RMS, plus one video.
• RMS lecture at KTH - at the Royal Institute of Technology (1986).
• Stallman Lecture in Lund, Sweden February 11, 2000
• Richard Stallman speaks - at the World Summit on the Information Society (2003).
• April 2004, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (Ogg/Theora video)
• Nov 2004, University of Ulm, Germany: Software patents (audio and video, different formats)
• May 2005, University of Calgary, Canada: Software patents (audio and video, different formats)

Interviews

• "Alternative Freedom" Documentary featuring Richard Stallman
• BYTE Interview with Richard Stallman - conducted by the now-defunct Byte magazine, at the beginning of the GNU project (July 1986).
• Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol of Free Software, MacArthur-Certified Genius (1999).
• Developer Spotlight: Richard Stallman (July 2004).
• Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview (December 2004).
• Kerneltrap.org Interview: Richard Stallman (January 2005).
• Interview with RMS in EuroHacker Magazine.
• Interview with RMS from Non-Tech City.
• Audio Interview with Richard Stallman by RadioTux and ORF at the WIKIMANIA 2005