Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.

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instanceOf computer programmer
free software advocate
human
software freedom activist
advocates use of free software instead of proprietary software
coined GNU is Not Unix (GNU recursive acronym)
copyleft (in software licensing context)
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1953-03-16
developed GNU Debugger
surface form: GDB (GNU Debugger)

early versions of GCC
original GNU Emacs text editor
educatedAt Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employer Free Software Foundation
familyName Richard Stallman self-linksurface differs
surface form: Stallman
fieldOfWork computer science
software engineering
software freedom
founded Free Software Foundation
GNU Project
fullName Richard Stallman self-linksurface differs
surface form: Richard Matthew Stallman
givenName Richard
ideology software should respect users' freedom
users should have the four essential freedoms of free software
knownFor advocacy of free software
formulating the concept of copyleft
founding the Free Software Foundation
initiating the GNU Project
writing the GNU General Public License
memberOf Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
surface form: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (historical)
movement copyleft movement
free software movement
notableWork Free Software, Free Society
GNU Compiler Collection
GNU Debugger
GNU Emacs
GNU General Public License
The GNU Manifesto
occupation activist
author
software developer
placeOfBirth Manhattan
surface form: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
positionHeld Richard Stallman self-linksurface differs
surface form: President of the Free Software Foundation
programmingLanguageCreated Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
website https://www.stallman.org/

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this entity surface form: Richard Matthew Stallman
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Richard Stallman positionHeld Richard Stallman self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: President of the Free Software Foundation
GNU is Not Unix (GNU recursive acronym) coinedBy Richard Stallman
subject surface form: GNU is Not Unix
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Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman
GNU Emacs developer Richard Stallman
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this entity surface form: Richard M. Stallman
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GNU Lesser General Public License author Richard Stallman
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The Danger of Software Patents author Richard Stallman
The Right to Read author Richard Stallman
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