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.

Speeches

Since the early-1990s, he has spent most of his time as a political campaigner. The titles of the three speeches he gives are "The GNU project and the Free Software movement", "The Dangers of Software Patents", and "Copyright and Community in the age of computer networks". He has given numerous keynote speeches at conferences, including the first Wikimania conference in 2005.

Related Topics:
1990s - Political campaigner - Wikimania - 2005

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