Richard Stallman

2026-01-03T21:44:44Z

Belowbelowbelow: added info about the open letter to remove Stallman from leadership positions

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Richard Stallman is an american programmer and founder of the Free Software Foundation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=William L. |first=Hosch |date=2025-10-05 |title=Richard Stallman - American computer programmer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Stallman}}</ref> He is known for promoting free software.

==Works at MIT==
He worked at MIT from 1971 to 1984.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Stallman |first=Richard |title=A serious bio |url=https://www.stallman.org/biographies.html}}</ref> While at MIT, he wrote the Emacs editor.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He left MIT over his concerns about the copyright of the software he was developing for them<ref name=":0" />

== Open letter to remove from all leadership positions ==
in 2021-03-23, an open letter signed by many prominent figures and organizations in the free software scene was published, accusing Stallman that: "He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |year=2021 |orig-date=2021-03-23 |title=rms open letter |url=https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==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.<ref name=":0" />

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