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]

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

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 William L., Hosch (2025-10-05). "Richard Stallman - American computer programmer".

[:1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Stallman, Richard. "A serious bio".

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